The Right to be Choosy

The Right to be Choosy

 The September auction week at Grosvenor achieved a pleasing final sale total of £841,405.

Bermuda was the leading country from the Langton Hill Collection, presented as a single auction.  Many important items appeared for sale, the 1620 and 1628 letters sent to England by John Hanmer [lot 166], the first being the second earliest in private hands, sold for £16,120. The used example … Read more...

 

The Big Auction Week

It may have been unseasonably cold in London during the last week of November but there was plenty of heat generated by, in particular, the online bidding for Grosvenor’s last two auctions of 2023, generating a final sale total of £1,010,643 with happy buyers around the world.

Prominent in the British Empire & Foreign Countries auction, held on November 28-29, was the remarkable collection of the issues of the Union … Read more...

 

Ben Palmer joins the Grosvenor team

We are delighted to welcome Ben Palmer FRSPC, FBSAP, FIPJF, AIEP, APR who joins Grosvenor bringing significant experience from working at two previous auction houses over a number of years.

 

Ben’s strength is in British Empire, particularly 19thand 20th century postal history. He is a both a National and International Judge and Fellow of the FIP Jury. He won the National Research Award in 2014 and … Read more...

 

Boiling Over

Over two sticky July days in central London the Grosvenor Summer Auction blew away all expectations,  raising over £1 million for its delighted vendors. The bidding was hot, the prices hotter still, as three auctioneers battled to control waves of online bidding that arrived to compete with pre-sale bids and the challenges of attendees in the room.

The auction contained several important offerings, the first being the John Ineson collection … Read more...