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Specializes in car and bike auctions, including Hammer Time Live Car & Bikes and Manor Park Classics car and bike sales, alongside tractor and machinery auctions and commercial tractors. The house also runs furniture auctions and toys and collectibles sales, and offers fundraising auctioneer and auctioneer-for-hire services.

Weekly timed online auctions in Somerset feature more than 1,000 lots per catalogue, spanning antiques, jewellery, furniture, tools, gaming, electronics and garden equipment. Recent standout sales included an original Pokémon card collection at a £850 hammer price, a 1942 Japanese Army NCO sword at £1,000, and a John Deere X125 ride-on mower at £820. Buyers can collect locally at the Shepton Mallet saleroom or arrange UK shipping on most suitable lots.

Balclis specializes in hammer auctions across antiques, contemporary art, oriental art, design, sculpture, jewellery, painting and watches, staging five such sales a year. Its online lots are sold through the international marketplace Auctionet, exclusively in Spain, giving collectors a way to bid remotely alongside in-person events.

Andrew Smith & Son Auctioneers features fine art, antiques, and decorative interiors, including a recent micro-mosaic of St. Mark's Square, Venice, which hammered at £3,000. The auction house is located in Winchester.

Upcoming auctions include an online Fenton Art Glass sale closing October 25, with more than 800 lots of lamps, hobnail, cranberry, and Burmese pieces and a 20% premium added to hammer prices, followed by pickup on October 29 and 31. A second online Fenton Art Glass sale closes November 1, featuring Marilyn Wagner pieces, tobacco jars, epergnes, and over 800 lots, with pickup on November 5 and 7.

Property auctioneers handling commercial, parking, land, residential and mixed-use properties across the UK, with the source citing mansions, business premises and even lighthouses among the sales it has handled. The house runs a 28-day online auction cycle and a 0% sales fee option, with buyers paying the reservation fee and deposit when the hammer falls. One recent sold example in the listings shows a £6,303 result from a £4,000 starting bid, while a £300,000 sale is also featured.

Auctions fine art and antiques, including a Royal Copenhagen porcelain tea and coffee service that recently hammered for £11,000. The Great Western Auctions Ltd offers both room and online bidding options for its sales.

Potters Auction Saleroom specializes in estate and collection sales, with a noted focus on jewellery, alongside probate valuations, house clearances, and gold and silver buying. The house also offers live online auctions, worldwide online bidding, and packing and shipping for lots. The site pitches itself as friendly and transparent, promising clear communication "from the first estimate to the final hammer."

Estate & consignment auctions featuring firearms, such as a Belgium Browning Superposed Express Rifle that hammered at $5,650, are the most distinctive offering from Laughlin Auctions Inc. of Edinburg, Virginia. The house also runs real estate sales alongside its Kenneth Hunter Estate auctions, which are listed as both onsite and online.

Regular sales cover antique ceramics, glass, pictures, clocks, jewellery, silver and collectables, with the house also taking single items and complete estate clearances. The Hawick saleroom runs an online timed antiques and collectables sale, with a buyer's premium of 28% added to the hammer price. Valuations on antiques, furniture and collectables are offered for a fee, and collection and delivery can be arranged depending on location and item count.

Arthur Johnson & Sons Auctioneers features a wide array of items, including an 18ct gold Winston Churchill commemorative coin that hammered at £1,400. The house holds regular Saturday auctions across multiple lot categories.

Knights Auctioneers specializes in cricket, football and sporting memorabilia, with a standout focus on the Hedley Verity collection, including his Yorkshire and England Test cap and a Bodyline tour cap from 1932-33. The house also offers Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, including a 1897 hardback that realized £9,500, alongside signed cabinet cards of players such as W.G. Grace, Ranjitsinhji and Peter McAlister. Its catalogue of signed team sheets and England and Australia tour photographs adds a strong collector's dimension to the sale.

Auctions fine art, jewelry, and collectibles, with recent results listing a Paris Bordone (1500-1571) at $150,000, a Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) at $36,000, and an important English Neoclassical centre table at $625,000. Jewelry offerings include a Cartier Panthère lady's wristwatch at $7,000, an antique diamond festoon necklace at $17,500, and a 2.90ct diamond ring at $11,000. The house also reports selling items from the private collection of Tommy Mottola and estates in Greenwich, Darien, and Stamford, Connecticut, with its Fall Estates Auction set for a live sale in Stamford.

Upcoming auctions include a Fabergé egg and Bollinger/Napoleon champagne cooler lot closing on October 29, with a busy run of sales from October 23 to 30: DMS electric stackers and gas forklifts and fishing equipment on October 23, gold jewellery on October 24, and Danish art, designer furniture, watches, and exclusive wine on October 25. Further sales close on October 29 and 30 (Mac Baren Tobacco Company, Omme Lift, and The Burger Concept), and Shoeline by Canille under bankruptcy closes on November 1.

Castleblair Auctioneers, a family-run Fife house, sells everything from 18th century silverware and vintage jewellery to modern kitchen appliances and consumer technology, with its valuation service also covering game consoles and smart phones. The firm runs regular online auctions broadcast live from its saleroom, and its next sale is listed in the Easy Live Auction catalogue.

Veilinghuis De Jager specializes in antique and designer jewelry, China porcelain and Asiatica, and fine art, with recent results including a Bernard Schobinger designer ring and an Empire-period "Harlequin" pendule. The house, which bills itself as the largest auction house in the south of Holland, also lists a 19th-century red coral sculpture of Quanyin and rooster, an oil on panel attributed to Hendrik van Anthonissen, and a rare Hague clock signed Johannes van Ceulen. Its international Arts, Antique and Jewelry auction charges a 0% consignment fee, with a flat €15 per lot.

Specializes in tribal art, with sales focused on African and Oceanic art alongside art from the Americas and Asia and ancient art, according to the house's site. The Swiss firm, which describes itself as small and focused, holds monthly auctions with live-streaming and says it has sold 25,000 objects.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers is holding its final general sale of 2026, an unreserved antique and estate auction on Monday, October 26 at 5:00 PM, with absentee, phone, and online bidding via Liveauctioneers.com. The sale features Mid-Century Modern furniture, Stickley and Arts & Crafts pieces, fine art, Meissen and other porcelains, sterling silver, a 1930 Stewart/Gibson guitar, and a Hummel collection, with in-house previews on Sunday, October 25 from 1 to 5 PM and on sale day from 2 to 4:30 PM. A military and weaponry sale is planned for November, but no specific date for it was given.

Upcoming auctions include the Edition Auktion | 01 in Potsdam on November 28, 2026, an online sale that launches a new recurring series featuring art, paintings and sculptures, jewellery and watches, and porcelain and ceramics. Auktionshaus Auktionspunkt is also accepting consignments for this first edition, which will be offered in the same series format going forward.

The Auction House North Shields is holding its next sale, THE HOUSELOT 001, on 30 November 2026, covering antiques, jewellery, militaria, coins, vinyl, toys, ceramics and collectables, with viewing in the seven days before the sale and bidding starting at 10am.

Upcoming auctions include a consignment gun auction in Salina on October 31, 2026, with over 290 firearms, ammunition, and reloading supplies, plus a restored 1950 Willys CJ3A Jeep offered with no reserve. A heating and air equipment reduction auction in Salina follows on November 7, 2026, offering welders, pipe threaders, and lifts, and a real estate and contents auction in Geneseo is set for November 14, 2026 at noon.