Automaton Auctions

AUCTION TEAM BREKER is holding its next specialty sale on 7 November 2026, with highlights including a Rare Copernican Planetary Polyphon, a Weber Unika Orchestrion, a Replica Life-Sized Automaton "Speaking Mechanical Man," a Coffee-Drinker Automaton, an Arriflex 35 BL camera, and a Pair of French Table Globes by Delamarche.

Lucas Casa d'Aste specializes in auctions of Old Master and 19th-century paintings and icons, alongside design, furniture, oriental art, and silver. Its top-lot selection includes a Carlo Scarpa piece, a workshop-of Rubens work, a Hieronimus Francken II, a Renaissance automaton table clock, and a Japanese cabinet, with one client noting that the house's staff helped evaluate and sell two old paintings.

Koller Auktionen AG, Zurich, sells Old Master paintings, Impressionist and modern art, and Swiss art, with recent lots including a Rachel Ruysch still life sold for CHF 460,000 and a Pieter Brueghel the Younger painting that fetched CHF 1.34 million. The house also runs sales in watches and jewellery, where a gold and enamel box with a singing bird automaton, signed by Jaquet-Droz & Leschot, set a world auction record at CHF 137,000. Koller says it has more than sixty years of experience and, per its own review, its 2025 sales defied predictions of an auction-market downturn.

Forsythes' Auctions specializes in antiques, with a particular focus on early furniture, coverlets, quilts, and smalls. The house also features Asian art, including Chinese porcelain and Japanese woodblock prints.

Upcoming auctions include a Jukebox & Arcade sale on November 21, 2026, offering two private collections of more than 100 jukeboxes and 90 video arcade cabinets.

Foss Appraisal Service is holding an online estate auction on October 15, 2026, featuring fine art, furniture, vintage video games, and USFS Smokey Bear collectibles. An online estate auction on November 5, 2026, will include SciFi items, fine art, vintage toys, and decor.

Upcoming auctions include the Antique & Home Sale at Lichfield Auction Centre, with sessions on November 2, 9 and 16, 2026. Each session opens at 9.00am with garden effects, tools, electricals, furniture and furnishings, and a 10.30am session follows featuring jewellery, watches, coins, silver, pictures, ceramics, glass and household miscellaneous. Richard Winterton Auctioneers Ltd also runs its Online Valuations and House Clearance services, and the sale is available to bid on through Easylive.

Dovetails llc features auctions of fine art, sterling silver, and jewelry, including designer costume pieces. The estate liquidation house also offers a curated online shop with antique and vintage furnishings.

Potter & Potter is holding auctions on October 31, 2026, for "Houdini Returns: The Centennial Auction," and on November 1, 2026, for "Houdini Returns: The Encore." An auction for "Political & Historical Americana" is scheduled for November 5, 2026.

Kensington Estate Auctions is holding an online art and antique auction on November 9, 2026, featuring items such as a 19th Century Green Opaline Palais Royal Napoleon III era Perfume Bottle, an Andy Warhol BRILLO SOAP PAD BOX, Native American pottery and baskets, and works by artists including Otto Poertzel, John LeGrand, and George Segal.

Clarks Auction Rooms is holding an auction on October 29, 2026, featuring Jewellery, Collectables, Antiques & Furnishings. An additional auction is scheduled for November 26, 2026, also featuring Jewellery, Collectables, Antiques & Furnishings.