High Chair Auctions

Upcoming auctions include The Southern Historian's Collection, a Sunday, November 8 live online sale of 416 lots led by an Italian carved giltwood mirror estimated at $10,000–15,000, and Birmingham Modern: Dunbar to Diamonds, a Sunday, November 15 online sale of 304 lots led by a Frank Fleming bronze hare estimated at $30,000–50,000.

Specializing in online-only estate auctions with a strong showing of vintage medical equipment, the house is offering a North Lima, Ohio, lot of 1930s-era W.D. Allison Company and Hamilton Manufacturing Company medical examination tables and apothecary cabinets. Its catalog also runs to Soviet Union and Russian coins, vintage pocket watches from Southbend and Westclox, and Helle Gaupe knives made in Norway. The company's bidding is handled entirely through its online portal, Bid-Assets.

Park Village Auctions is holding a run of sales through the window, opening with the Finsch Diamond Mine business-rescue auction of redundant and scrapped mobile plant, including underground and mining equipment, which closes on October 27 in the Northern Cape. Further sales include ABSA bank-repossessed vehicle auctions in Boksburg on October 28 and November 3, in Durban on November 11, and in Gqeberha and Bloemfontein on November 12, plus a National Vehicle Auction on November 5. Other listings include the Rustenburg farms sale on November 3, Ekapa Diamond Mine equipment in Kimberley from November 10 to 11, several Magogudi Construction curatorship properties in Gauteng and a Zinkwazi Beach home closing on November 12, and a Liquidation Auction of Banzi Trade 31's brick manufacturing plant closing November 17 to 18.

Visbids leads with folk art and Indigenous material in its upcoming "Folk Art, Pottery, Textiles and Country Furnishings" sale, which names works by Mose Tolliver, Clarence Webster, Jacob Roth and Gilbert Desroches, alongside decorated stoneware and redware by Goold, Schuler and Welding and Mohawk pottery. The house also runs collector's auctions heavy in Lalique hood ornaments, trench art and vintage model cars, sold in the Greater Toronto Area and online through HiBids. Its catalogues are rich with pre-Confederation samplers and Canadian paintings, giving the Toronto-area house a distinctly Canadian focus.

Upcoming auctions include a live collectables, antiques, jewellery, ceramics and watches sale (lots 1–1499) on 28 October, with a special watch sale and catering equipment, followed by a commercial catering equipment sale (lots 3400–4500) on 30 October. A monthly machinery, plant, vehicle, implement and tools auction runs on 10 November, then a furniture, antiques and vintage sale (lots 1501–3500) with a special Asian and Oriental Art section on 12 November, and a furniture, antiques and vintage sale (lots 1501–3399) with a special toys and catering equipment section on 26 November.

Ibbett Mosely Auction Rooms in Sevenoaks sells a broad mix of fine silver, gold and jewellery, with the current Wednesday 21st October 2026 sale headlined by a George III 18ct gold pocket watch that hammered at £4,900 against a guide of £1,100 to £1,300. Other lots include Chinese blue and white porcelain, a 9ct gold cigarette case, a Longines wristwatch and an After Grace Mott Johnson bronze sculpture of gun dogs. The house's own stories report that silver has continued to exceed expectations at recent sales, despite fears of an overheated market.

Specialises in liquidation and clearance sales, with the most distinctive lots in the current catalogue being Waipara River Estate wines (Riesling, Pinot Noir, Gewurztraminer, Cabernet Sauvignon) and Moa Beer clearance stock. The house also runs sales of Australian and European rustic hardwood and softwood beams and sleepers, European large-format wall and floor tiles, and Technogym fitness equipment. For readers in Canterbury, the mix is notably broad, spanning restaurant fit-outs, worksite toilet blocks and electrical site safety gear alongside household goods.

Light in the Attic Estates is holding two online auctions on HiBid, both with lots closing and pickups in the coming weeks. The first, which began bidding on October 19 and has lots closing Wednesday the 28th at 6pm, features 14K and sterling silver jewelry and watches by Omega and Gruen, a Five Section Library Bureau file cabinet, a French Renaissance Revival china cabinet, and art and glass from several makers, with pickup at the Pisgah Forest office on Friday, October 30. The second, with bidding starting Monday, October 26 and lots closing Wednesday, November 4 at 6pm, offers mid-century-style sofas, patio furniture, Vera Bradley bags, uranium glass marbles, and Star Wars bowling balls, with pickup at the Hendersonville office on Friday, November 6.