Dear friends,  The penultimate sale before I retire and it is a good one, and if Arthur is reading this – we have some cigars!  AND WINES.  The sale date is the 19th May starting at 11am with viewing on Wednesday the 18th from 1pm to 7pm.  Calls to mansion flats in Kensington are rarely dull and this visit was not disappointing.  An Italian lady in her 90s had died and this huge flat was full of her family furniture brought over from Italy.   They may not be the best Continue reading →

Dear friend, Our next auction is on the 14th April and, as ever, it starts at 11 am with public viewing the day before from 1 pm to 7 pm and from 9.30 am until the sale starts on sale day.  You and the public are welcome to the viewing, and to the sale. A gentleman came in with a fire screen and asked if we would sell it.  It had a good embroidered panel depicting the regimental insignia of The Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment Continue reading →

   **Just arrived, from a deceased estate, a Volvo XC60 D4 estate car, registration MR14 NCS, in blue. I guess it might be 50 years ago that I stood proudly outside the sale room I had just finished smartening up for an opening party.  I was the young manager of West London Auctions and we had moved into fabulous premises in Sandringham Mews, High Street, Ealing.  It was an old Lamertons warehouse on three clear floors with a goods lift.  We had had the exterior painted to highlight Continue reading →

Dear Friends, Welcome to our first sale of 2022, with completion dates delayed we are lacking in size, but do our best to make up in quality. The PICTURE section is currently running under 100 lots but not far short, and does include a number of portraits, one particularly is on canvas and of a nobleman in armour within a gold carved frame, it measures 45 x 33 inches approximately, also including works by or attributed to Samuel Prout, George Law Beetholme, Arthur Stocks, George Continue reading →