Rare Auctions

IPG Auctions, operating as Idaho Pawn & Gold across Boise, Meridian and Nampa, deals heavily in precious metals and jewelry, with its journal pointing to gold and diamond rings, 14k and 18kt pieces, silver chains, dental gold and bullion. Collector coins also feature prominently, including an 1884 Carson City silver dollar, 1827 large cent and 1853 half dime. The site touts a pending "Boys Toys & Girls Bling" auction extravaganza in Boise, though no specifics about it appear beyond the headline.

Upcoming auctions include the timed online sale The Illustrated Book: Art Between the Covers, which closes on Sunday 1 November 2026 from 7pm, followed by a Charity Auction Event on 12 November 2026 at the Grill Room. The Premium November Auction runs as a live sale from 10am on 24, 26 and 25 November 2026, with the lot-level details still to be confirmed.

Upcoming auctions include the Jewellery, Coins, Silver & Timepieces sale, with bidding opening Friday, October 30th, featuring estate and consignment jewellery, numismatics, watches, and silver. Other sales, including the November Art Sessions and Robert Carter estate sessions, are listed without specific dates within the window, while the Holiday Art Auction and December Art sale fall after November 26.

Alderfer Auction is holding a run of online-only sales beginning with Firearms, Swords and Bayonets at 10:00 AM and an Ammunition sale at 8:00 PM on October 27, followed by Firearm Accessories, Sporting and Military on October 28 and Musical Instruments on October 29, with a Limerick Hardware Inventory Liquidation closing its bidding on November 2, a Home & Decor auction featuring Furniture on November 5, and a Minerals & Geodes sale on November 11. In between, walk-in evaluations run on October 27 in Hatfield, October 28 in Wayne and Doylestown, and November 5 in Doylestown, while the company will accept consignments at the Great American Guitar Show in Oaks on November 7–8, ahead of a guitar-focused sale on November 12.

American Eagle Auction & Appraisal Company, a Michigan-based certified auction firm, is best known in its source material for large collection sales, including Lionel and model train collections, LP record albums, and vintage sports memorabilia. The firm also highlights its sale of the Totem Village artifact collection, the AMI-ROWE Jukebox Museum, and military collections that drew over 1,000 bidders. Its site describes more than 30 years of sports memorabilia expertise, with past work including the collections of former Detroit Tigers president Jim Campbell and photographer Bob 'Red' Wimmer.

Upcoming auctions include two online die-cast collections, 1:18 scale V8 Supercars Collection Part 2 and Ford vs Holden: The Ultimate Rivalry, with bidding closing Thursday, 12 November 2026, and a timed-and-live auction at The Classics Museum in Hamilton that opens online Sunday, 15 November. The Elite Multi Vendor Petrol and Collectors auction, with over 300 lots of oil tins, petrol bowsers and enamel signs, is also listed in the coming weeks, but its exact date falls outside the reporting window or is not fully specified in the source.

Estate sales in Salt Lake City featuring antiques, original artwork, custom textiles and statement furniture, with the firm also handling entire homes and in-house appraisals before items go on the block. The company says buyers can join a private mailing list for early access to fine art, collectibles and antiques before sales go live, and a visitor reported a recent sale with high-end furniture and art alongside inexpensive garden items.

Upcoming auctions include a Mountain Bike Shop sale with bikes, helmets, and tools closing online Mon, Oct 26 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM, followed by Glass, Ammo, and Estate lots ending Wed, Oct 28 and an Auto, RV, and Equipment Vehicles sale ending the same day, with its final bidding window from 1:30 to 1:40 PM. Later in the window, a Mall Furnishings and Household Goods sale ends Sun, Nov 1, a Lozano Estate sale of tools, cars, and trailers ends Mon, Nov 2, and Community, ISU, and Estate lots plus a Jeep, Loader, and Trailer sale both end Sat, Nov 14.

Upcoming auctions include RR Auction's November 2026 Fine Autographs & Artifacts sale, which features a Kennedy section with a letter on the Bay of Pigs failure, a signed inaugural photograph, and historic letters from Washington, Lincoln, Franklin, and Jefferson, and the November 2026 World War II sale, led by an archive of Nuremberg trial papers offered 80 years after the tribunal, along with Montgomery's battle orders and Hindenburg wreckage artifacts. The listing shows "Nov 11" and "Nov 19" beside these sales, but neither date includes a year, so no complete auction date can be confirmed.

Upcoming auctions include no dated sales within the window; the source describes Chicane Auctions as a Melbourne-based collector car specialist running timed online auctions with a showroom viewing period of several weeks before each sale closes, but it names no specific auction dates or lots between October 25 and November 24, 2026.

Direct Auctions, a Burnaby-headquartered house that bills itself as Vancouver's largest auction house, runs online sales spanning jewellery, watches, movie memorabilia and industrial equipment, with a recent Hollywood Direct Auctions film-buff sale and a Dec. 13 UFO production archive featuring a 1947 Roswell yearbook among its press highlights. The house also lists estates, vintage electronics, sports memorabilia, containers and entire stores among its categories, and it offers appraisals and buy-on-the-spot purchases. One of its more unusual recent headlines is a 45-year private collection of vintage audio and hi-fi equipment.

James Auctioneers specialises in premium watches, urban culture and pop art, and sports and film memorabilia, with lots including an Andy Warhol numbered lithograph, a Breitling Superocean Blacksteel and a Tiffany & Co. sterling silver compass. The house also lists Corgi and Dinky retro toys, James Bond collections, and Hermès and St Dupont items. One reviewer praised its service, while another reported a bangle sold as Tiffany silver was neither, and complained of slow responses.

Upcoming auctions include Prime Lambs on October 26, 2026, at Lanark Mart from 10:30 to 15:00, with a second event that morning starting at 11:00 whose title is cut off in the source. The Final Fling Ram Sale is listed for October 29, 2026.

Antique & Art Exchange sells European and Asian antiques and art, with listings spanning Rose Medallion Chinese export porcelain, Imari chargers, Staffordshire figures, Italian Baroque-style secretaries, Venetian mirrors, and French farmhouse tables. The online inventory also includes Grand Tour bronzes, Japanese Keyaki wood usu, and Mid-Century abstract oil paintings, with prices running from $250 to $7,950. The shop's own storefront listings are sold through a categorized online catalog alongside an "AAXSF University" section aimed at helping buyers become antique experts.

Upcoming auctions include the final general sale of 2026, an unreserved antique and estate auction on Monday, October 26th at 5:00 PM EST, with absentee, phone, and online bidding via LiveAuctioneers, plus previews on Sunday, October 25th from 1 to 5 PM and on the sale day from 2 to 4:30 PM. Antiques, Mid-Century furniture, fine art, sterling silver, jewelry, and musical instruments are among the featured categories, and a military and weaponry sale is scheduled for November with no specific date given.

Upcoming auctions include a Vente @Home Spéciale Objets running from November 5 to 15, 2026, which is not yet open, while the Vente @Home Tirages de tête is already underway and runs until November 1, 2026.

Blue Ridge Estate Liquidators sells estate-sale inventory from its Canton, N.C., warehouse, with recent and upcoming offerings spanning antique statement pieces, mid-century modern furniture, hard-to-find vintage clothing, and collectibles. Its listed upcoming "Massive Warehouse Estate Sale" is described as offering "thousands of items" for pickers, with cash and major credit cards accepted and all items sold as-is, where-is. The firm also runs a separate comics and trading-card shop, which lists a grand opening on Friday, June 12, 2026.

Veilinghuis De Jager specializes in antique and designer jewelry, China porcelain and Asiatica, with recent lots including a Breguet Empire men's watch, a pair of Delft unicorn sculptures, a red coral necklace, and a Lalique glasswork group. The house describes itself as the largest auction house in the south of Holland, with a 0% consignment fee for its international Arts, Antique and Jewelry auction, where sellers pay €15 per lot. Its published calendar lists its next Art, Antique & Asian Auction at the start of December 2026.

Guette's Auction is holding an African Art sale of a private collection on Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 10:30 in Brussels. No other auction dates fall within the November 25 search window; the Mode & Maroquinerie sale on September 3, 2026 has already passed.

Jordaens nv is holding an online Varia sale on October 26 at 22:00, followed by its main Antiekveiling of around 600 lots on October 27 and 28 at 19:00, with African art and ethnographic pieces and cut glassware among the highlighted sections. Its online-only Doorniks Porselein sale closes on November 23 at 20:00, with lots going to the highest reasonable bidder at a 22% commission on the hammer price plus a €3 fee per lot.

Upcoming auctions include a single-owner Lionel Postwar Train Collection of about 500 lots on November 4, 2026, followed by The Rohe Estate Mechanical Music Box and Street Organ Collection on November 18, 2026.