Which translates to a very full hall with 400 plus lots for the auction on Saturday 2nd April at the Badger Farm Community Centre in Winchester. Viewing from 12:30 Auction at 14:00.
Of course what we need now is buyers. Email your friends, share Auctions in a Day on Facebook page and tell people about it. At recent auctions 200 have people have viewed and around 100 stay for the auction.
Sellers if you wish to promote your items with a description (and image) on the web site, please contact andrew@auctionsinaday.co.uk
Sellers our next auction is on 7th May at Badger Farm. You can book space now by emailing bookings@auctionsinaday.co.uk. Bookings are done on a first come first served basis.
Looking forward to this. I wonder what there will be in the sale?
In addition to our general auction on June 4th at Itchen Abbas, we will be running two specialist auctions.
Cycle Auction
Saturday 4th June – Itchen Abbas Village Hall
Raleigh Dawn Safety Tourist or possibly Superbe Ladies Bike – believed to be from WWII
Our fifth cycle auction takes place before the general auction in the garden. Cycles and related items are delivered at 8am, Viewing is from 10:30 and the auction is at noon.
Do you have any cycles to sell? Do you know anyone who has a cycle they should sell? Now is the time to give them a clean, take a photo and post them on the appropriate page of our web site to attract buyers to the auction. The list is in the Cycles menu on our web site. There have been nearly a 1,000 visitors to our Cycling page in the last 90 days. They want to see what you have to sell.
Buyers can expect 100-150 lots on the day. In the past they have ranged from early 1900s bikes, all the way to modern bikes which have never been used! We have sold respected small volume English frame makers, good bikes from Raleigh, Dawes, Claud Butler and modern American and Continental makers. Check out the Cycling Archives to see what has been sold previously.
Normal charges: £1 per lot submitted for sale, 12.5% commission for buyers and sellers and 50p to view/bid.
Höfner 185 “Artist Bass” 1964 – Restored and ready to play
Yes, inside the festival at Arlebury Park. With 3,000 people attending the festival and a significant percentage of them who play musical instruments, we think they will want to sell some and buy some.
We are putting up a large marquee for the day. We will be receiving instruments in the morning and lotting them up. Viewing at lunchtime and the early afternoon. The auction will be in sections (guitars, woodwind, brass etc.) in the late afternoon and early evening.
If you have or know someone who has a musical instrument to sell, please upload photos and descriptions to the Musical Instrument section pages on our site now, to attract buyers. The auction will be promoted on the Alresford Music Festival web site and in their email shots to a few thousand people.
Charges: £2 per lot submitted for sale and 12.5% commission for buyers and sellers. No charge for viewing/bidding.
Please look at the advice for those unable to attend as buyers or sellers on the Musical Instruments web page. We will do our best to get your instrument in the auction and accept your commission bids.
Lots more details plus photos and descriptions of the first musical instruments to be posted on the Musical Instruments web page.
If you need any information about these auctions, please email info@auctionsinaday.co.uk.
The auction kicked off with ten cycles including a postman’s bike and three classic bikes. Followed by 290 wide ranging lots of which the best by value was a silver bon bon tray selling for £90.
In addition to the top ten below there was some Clarice Cliff, Staffordshire dogs, a collection of 270 postcards, a Russian samovar, a military watch, a mace, several good pieces of silver and jewellery, a signal lamp, glassware, mirrors and a vintage fire bucket. They were all amongst the 33 lots selling for £30 or over.
As you can see above the auction was well attended with 90 people in that shot just before the auction started plus the smokers and the people inspecting the cycles in the garden. About 200 will have attended the viewing. There were many new buyers and sellers.
We will be back at Itchen Abbas on the 4th June and there will a specialist cycle section running before the general auction.
Our next general auction is on Saturday, 2nd April at Badger Farm Community Centre. We look forward to seeing you there.
Lot 171 – Silver Bon Bon TraySold for £90
Lot 189 – 3 Bronze Statuettes of Ladies Made in FranceSold for £65
Lot 39 – Collection of Hornby OO Gauge Trackside Buildings and Other ItemsSold for £60
Lot 14 – Three Japanese VasesSold for £55
Lot 213 – Two Swedish Silver 925 items – a salt in the form of a Viking longboat and a horn pepper potSold for £55
Lot 190 – Army Field CompassSold for £50
Lot 192 – South African Springbok mounted head 1914Sold for £50
Lot 78 – 1936-41 Dinky Toy 4 Engined Flying BoatSold for £45
Lot 111 – Victorian Caned Rocking ChairSold for £45
Lot 91 – Bag of Art Deco Costume JewellerySold £42
Musical instruments for sale last year: Hohner Melodeon, Bodhran, Hofner 60s bass guitar, Mandolin, Clarinet: Reso-Tone
On Saturday 10th June 2016 we are holding our second specialist musical instrument auction at the Alresford Music Festival. You can find more details on our Musical Instrument Auction page. We are promoting it well in advance to give buyers and sellers the best opportunity to see and sell their instruments and related items.
It is a requirement for submitting lots to this auction that the sellers upload descriptions and photographs to the web site. It’s a simple and free process.
Lots have to be delivered on the morning of the auction and removed if unsold in the afternoon unless you have reached a prior arrangement with us. Again please see the detailed terms and conditions on the Musical Instrument Auction page.
We will NOT be accepting pianos: grand, baby or upright; Hammond organs or any other large and heavy instrument for sale from the marquee. However we are willing to sell them with photographs and honest descriptions. Please call to discuss.
Please scroll down to see the pianos, organs, harpsichords, keyboards, synthesisers, accordions, melodeons, concertinas, etc. that have been posted for sale at the auction
Musical instruments for sale last year: Hohner Melodeon, Bodhran, Hofner 60s bass guitar, Mandolin, Clarinet: Reso-Tone
On Saturday 10th June 2016 we are holding our second specialist musical instrument auction at the Alresford Music Festival. You can find more details on our Musical Instrument Auction page. We are promoting it well in advance to give buyers and sellers the best opportunity to see and sell their instruments and related items.
It is a requirement for submitting lots to this auction that the sellers upload descriptions and photographs to the web site. It’s a simple and free process.
Lots have to be delivered on the morning of the auction and removed if unsold in the afternoon unless you have reached a prior arrangement with us. Again please see the detailed terms and conditions on the Musical Instrument Auction page.
If you are considering submitting a large drum kit or kettle drums, please contact us first.
Please scroll down to see the drums, bongos, xylophones, marimbas, glockenspiel, triangles, cymbals, bodhrans, etc. that have been posted for sale at the auction
Musical instruments for sale last year: Hohner Melodeon, Bodhran, Hofner 60s bass guitar, Mandolin, Clarinet: Reso-Tone
On Saturday 10th June 2016 we are holding our second specialist musical instrument auction at the Alresford Music Festival. You can find more details on our Musical Instrument Auction page. We are promoting it well in advance to give buyers and sellers the best opportunity to see and sell their instruments and related items.
It is a requirement for submitting lots to this auction that the sellers upload descriptions and photographs to the web site. It’s a simple and free process.
Lots have to be delivered on the morning of the auction and removed if unsold in the afternoon unless you have reached a prior arrangement with us. Again please see the detailed terms and conditions on the Musical Instrument Auction page.
Please scroll down to see the clarinets, flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, cornets, trombones, horns, Eb Basses, saxophones, didgeridoos or didjerdus, harmonicas, etc. that have been posted for sale at the auction
Musical instruments for sale last year: Hohner Melodeon, Bodhran, Hofner 60s bass guitar, Mandolin, Clarinet: Reso-Tone
On Saturday 10th June 2016 we are holding our second specialist musical instrument auction at the Alresford Music Festival. You can find more details on our Musical Instrument Auction page. We are promoting it well in advance to give buyers and sellers the best opportunity to see and sell their instruments and related items.
It is a requirement for submitting lots to this auction that the sellers upload descriptions and photographs to the web site. It’s a simple and free process.
Lots have to be delivered on the morning of the auction and removed if unsold in the afternoon unless you have reached a prior arrangement with us. Again please see the detailed terms and conditions on the Musical Instrument Auction page.
Bidders required for an auction room with 400-500 lots for sale at 14:00. Viewing from 12:30.
Mahoghany framed folding massage table
Yes, we are nearly fully booked again. Our barriers to entry for sellers are now rather high and then someone with silver enquired about space. They will be there.
We gave a hint that cycles will be welcome and half a dozen will be for sale. Almost all the rest is a mystery to be revealed when viewing starts at 12:30 on Saturday.
Sellers you can still make use of our offer to promote your goods on the web site: What will be for sale on Saturday? by posting a description and if possible a photo. A few items have been listed. With 400 plus lots you might like to stand out from the crowd.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at Itchen Abbas Village Hall where we will offer our normal refreshments of freshly made sandwiches and home-made cakes.
TIP: As well as parking in front of the hall, you can park up the hill by the industrial units on the village hall side of the road.
