BBC Bargain Hunt auction house Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers – Charles Hanson

http://www.hansonsauctioneers.co.uk/
Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers are featured on The BBC Bargain Hunt series. In case you are not familiar with the show two teams consisting of two members each compete to buy 3 antiques items and sell them for a profit at a general auction.

The auction houses vary from game to game and these blogs catalogue them in order for you to be able to sell or buy at these popular auctions.
(Many now have live online auctions which can be a good way to rest the market).

Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd,
36 Main Street,
Etwall,
Derbyshire
DE65 6LP
Tel: 01283 733 988
Fax: 01283 733 988

Sale dates:
Hansons hold their principal antique auctions at The Mackworth Hotel, an 18th century red brick Georgian Coaching Inn in Derbyshire but also use five other locations for auctions around the area.



Auction Dates:
http://www.hansonsauctioneers.co.uk/pages/latest-auctions.php

Hansons auctioneers hold specialist auctions for the following items:
Arms, Armour, Militaria and Coins
Books and Printed Material
Ceramics and Glass
Clocks, Watches and Barometers
Collectors Department
Furniture
Jewellery
Pictures
Silver
Stamps and Postal History
Decorative Arts and Modern Design
Textiles, Dolls and Teddy Bears

Auctioneer:
Charles Hanson, Bargain Hunt, auctioneer and director of Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd holds court and Gavel here. Charles Hanson MRICS began his career at Christies, London in the European Ceramics and Glass Department in 1999. Subsequent employment with fine art auction houses in Cheshire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire as a general valuer provided valuable experience.

Hansons hold their auctions at The Mackworth Hotel, an 18th century red brick Georgian Coaching Inn in Derbyshire. This impressive building comprises a large auction show room, good catering and seating for 150 people and parking for up to 300 cars.

Throughout the year it is the venue for international auction sales of antique silver, jewellery, ceramics, glass, pictures, clocks and furniture, specialist collector's items, book, stamp and coin auctions plus the monthly attic sale of Antiques and Decorative items from local estates.
Hansons successfully serves both vendors and buyers with particular attention given to personal service.

BBC Bargain Hunt auction house Golding Young and Thomas Mawer – Colin Young

http://www.goldingyoung.com
Golding Young and Thomas Mawer are featured on The BBC Bargain Hunt series. In case you are not familiar with the show two teams consisting of two members each compete to buy 3 antiques items and sell them for a profit at a general auction.

The auction houses vary from game to game and these blogs catalogue them in order for you to be able to sell or buy at these popular auctions.
(Many now have live online auctions which can be a good way to rest the market).

Golding Young and Thomas Mawer (Colin Young).

Golding Young and Company
Old Wharf Road
Grantham
Lincolnshire
England
NG31 7AA
Tel: 01476 565118

Lincoln office
Thomas Mawer and Son
Dunston House
Portland Street
Lincoln
England
LN5 7NN
Tel: 01522 524984

Sale days:
Dates are usually Mondays to Fridays over many locations, so check dates with the website.

Viewing Times:
Same day viewings and also viewings arranged near the dates of the auctions.
Golding Young and Thomas Mawer also have varied specialist auctions check here for current list:

Golding Young and Thomas Mawer cover:
Collectables
Fine Art
Antiques
Household effects
Valuations
House Clearance

Auctioneers:
Colin Young, (Bargain hunt expert) is a director and one of the Auctioneers at Golding Young and Thomas Mawer



A little History:

Goldings was formed in 1900 by George W Golding, one time Mayor of Grantham, and Louis Millhouse. The multi-discipline practice had the versatility of being Auctioneers, Valuers, Surveyors, Estate Agents, Insurance Brokers and Railway & Shipping Agents.

The partners were joined after the First World War by Albert Baxter and in 1931 by Bernard Millhouse, who became a partner in 1951. Every Saturday Goldings held auctions on the street of Westgate as well as those at the Old Wharf Road Saleroom. By 1966 Bernard Millhouse was sole principal of the firm at its offices at 38 Westgate.

Bernard Millhouse was joined by C Robin Hall in 1969 and became a partner in 1971, followed by Ian J Shaw in 1973 becoming a partner in 1977.

The influence of Robin Hall saw the building of a New Saleroom in Old Wharf Road in 1971 and the Surveying & Estate Agency practice move to 45 High Street in 1977.

In 1987 the business was sold to the Leeds Permanent Building Society and then re-acquired by the partners in 1991.

1989 saw the arrival of a new Saleroom Manager in Colin R Young.

In 1994 Colin Young became Sole Principal of the Auction Department based at the Old Wharf Salerooms, the latter becoming the current Firm - GOLDING YOUNG & CO.

In 2006 Goldings Chartered Surveyors merged with Grantham’s only other remaining long established professional firm of Chartered Surveyors & Estate Agents, Escritt & Barrell (Est. 1860) moving to 24 St Peters Hill.

BBC Bargain Hunt auction house Bamfords Auctioneers Derby James lewis

http://www.bamfords-auctions.co.uk/
Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers are featured on The BBC Bargain Hunt series. In case you are not familiar with the show two teams consisting of two members each compete to buy 3 antiques items and sell them for a profit at a general auction.

The auction houses vary from game to game and these blogs catalogue them in order for you to be able to sell or buy at these popular auctions.
(Many now have live online auctions which can be a good way to rest the market).


Derby Saleroom and Office Address:
The Derby Auction House
Chequers Road (off Pentagon Island)
Derby
DE21 6EN
Tel: 01332 210000

Matlock Saleroom:
The Old Picture Palace
Dale Road
Matlock
DE4 3LT
Tel: 01629 57460

Sale days:
Dates are set at different dates of the month throughout the year so check dates with the website.

Viewing Times:
The day before sale day 1pm to 7pm and on the Morning of Sale from 9am

Bamfords auctions cover:
Collectables
Fine Art
Antiques
English Pottery
English Porcelain
Glass
Clocks
Household effects
Valuations
Continental Ceramics
Oriental Ceramics
Watercolours
Oils
Prints
Boxes and Objects
Furniture
House Clearance


Bamfords auctions also have varied specialist auctions check here for current list:

Auctioneers:
James Lewis, (Bargain hunt expert) is a director at Bamfords auctioneers and valuers

Bamfords began in 2002 and now we are in the top 15 in the country. James has appeared on the BBC TV shows Flog it! and Cash in the Attic, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and more.

Originally reluctant to appear on TV James said when first asked, “No sorry, I can't think of anything worse than appearing on TV, no thank you”. Two weeks later he was made redundant, so James had to write back saying, “Actually do you mind if I just come for a chat?”

The rest as they say is history.



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BBC Bargain Hunt auction house Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers.

http://www.serrell.com/
Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers are featured on The BBC Bargain Hunt series. In case you are not familiar with the show two teams consisting of two members each compete to buy 3 antiques items and sell them for a profit at a general auction.

The auction houses vary from game to game and these blogs catalogue them in order for you to be able to sell or buy at these popular auctions.
(Many now have live online auctions which can be a good way to rest the market).

Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers
The Malvern Saleroom
Barnards Green Road,
Malvern, WR14 3LW
Tel: 01684 892314
also
Worcester Office
10 College Precincts,
Worcester, WR1 2LG
Tel: 01905 26200

Sale dates:
General auctions usually occur once a month
Fine art and antiques sales occur separately
(All dates are subject to change).
Auctions commence at 10.30am

CATALOGUED SALES OF ANTIQUES & FINE ART
Viewing held on the day before sale: 2pm - 8pm

GENERAL SALES
Viewing held on the day before sale: 2pm - 6pm

General sales, Fine Art and Antiques, specialist sales.



Auctioneers:

Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers have been established as one of Worcestershire’s premier independent auction houses since 1995, and experienced in the area for some 25 years. The Business is owned by Philip Serrell who is fully qualified Chartered Surveyor, the Company being required to comply with the stringent rules of Professional Conduct laid down by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

The main area of practice covers the whole of Middle England and the Welsh Borders, but whilst most of our work is concentrated locally and regionally.
Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers expertise is requested throughout the country. (Royal Worcester Porcelain for example).

Clients include many leading Banks, Solicitors and various private vendors, together with regular buyers.














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BBC Bargain Hunt Tim Wonacott quotes Blooper CUT

How many times have you wondered what BBC Bargain Hunts presenter Tim Wanacott is going to say next?



This is one of Tims many quirks along with his other oddities.

Here are a few other Tim Wanacott quotes:

"Looks like Shed Work"
"Barely a sheet of Bronco between them"
"It's up to your jugs now"
"Orf to Oction"
"Lets go Bargain Hunting"

Ah Tim Wonacott, The Leslie Phillips of Antiques Programmes!

BBC Bargain Hunt auction house Great Western Auctions Glasgow - Anita Manning

BBC Bargain Hunt auction house Great Western Auctions Glasgow.

http://www.greatwesternauctions.com

Great Western Auctions is featured on The BBC Bargain Hunt series. In case you are not familiar with the show two teams consisting of two members each compete to buy 3 antiques items and sell them for a profit at a general auction.

The auction houses vary from game to game and these blogs catalogue them in order for you to be able to sell or buy at these popular auctions.
(Many now have live online auctions which can be a good way to rest the market).

Great Western Auctions
The Great Western auctions Ltd (Anita Manning)
Great Western Auctions
1291 Dumbarton Road
Whiteinch
Glasgow
G14 9UY
Tel: 0141 954 1500
(All enquiries including free valuations)

Sale dates:
Auctions occur every two weeks:
Auctions commence at 10.00am
Viewing Friday prior to auction 10am to 6pm and on the morning of the sale from 9am

Quarterly Fine Art and Antiques Auction
Auctions commence at 10.00am
Viewing for Fine Art and Antique Auctions on the Thursday 10am-5pm and Friday 10am to 6pm prior to auction and the morning of the auction from 9am.

Auctions Cover:
Every two weeks, Great Western Auctions have sales of antique and collectible auctions consisting of:
jewellery, gold coins, silver, silver plate, ceramics, porcelain, glass, decorative arts, metal ware, clocks, barometers, sports memorabilia, medals, militaria, stamps, toys, collectors items, musical and scientific instruments, works of art, textiles, oil paintings, watercolours and pencil signed prints, rugs, carpets, 20th century design, Antique, Victorian and Edwardian furniture.



Autioneers:
The Great Western Auctions Ltd was established in 1988 by Bargain Hunt Expert Anita Manning.

Established in 1988 in Glasgow by one of Scotland's first woman auctioneers - Anita Manning. Great Western Auctions are one of Scotland’s premier independent auction houses and combine traditional values with up to date technology and marketing.

Great Western Auctions features on Flog It!, Bargain Hunt & Cash in the Attic.

Anita Manning can be seen regularly as on screen expert, on the BBC’s Flog It! with Paul Martin and Bargain Hunt with Tim Wonnacott.

BBC Bargain Hunt auction house Bellmans Autioneers West Sussex Jonathan Pratt

http://www.bellmans.co.uk/
 

Bellmans Auctioneers is featured on The BBC Bargain Hunt series. In case you are not familiar with the show two teams consisting of two members each compete to buy 3 antiques items and sell them for a profit at a general auction.

The auction houses vary from game to game, so these pages catalogue them in order for you so you will to be able to sell or buy items at these popular auctions.
(Many now have live online auctions which can be a good way to rest the market).

Bellmans Auctioneers
New Pound
Wisborough Green
Billingshurst
West Sussex
RH14 0AZ

Tel: 01403 700858

Sale dates:
Auctions occur 3 times a month and are usually on:
Wednesday:
12:00pm, 2:00pm
Thursday:
10:00am, 2:00pm
Friday: 10:00am

Auction dates are set at different times of the month throughout the year so check dates with the website.
An extra auction is often held once a month dealing with Aniquarian Books.

Bellmans auctions cover:
Oil Paintings, Watercolours & Prints.
English & Continental Ceramics & Glass.
Oriental Ceramics & Eastern Works of Art.
Jewellery & Watches.
Silver, Plate & Objects of Vertu.
English & Continental Furniture & Works of Art.
Clocks, Scientific Instruments and Cameras.
Carpets, Rugs & Textiles.
Antiquarian & Modern Books.
Toys, Dolls and Collectors items.
Postcards, Cigarette Cards and Printed Ephemera.



Autioneers:
Bellmans Managing Director and Bargain Hunt Expert Johnathan Pratt holds court and gavel here.

Jonathan has run Bellmans which is based at Wisborough Green, near Billingshurst, for the past five years. They handle sales totalling between £2million to £3million a year.

They hold at least 11 sales a year, each running over three days with up to 2,000 lots. They also hold at least four specialist book sales. Values achieved range from £40 collectables up to artworks running into thousands of pounds.

Anita Manning BBC bargain hunts most popular auctioneer

A recent poll carried out by this site has revealed that Anita Manning is by far the most popular antiques expert with viewers on BBC TV’s Bargain Hunt and Flog it.

This is a surprising result. The antiques experts are all generally popular and well liked so it was unexpected to see such an outright winner and by such a lengthy margin.

However, it is easy to see why! Anita Manning with her good-humoured warmth of character and a personality that literally leaps off the screen. Full of charm and wit, it seems that this irrepressible and stylish Scot has taken the TV public by storm.

So what is so special about Anita?

As a Bargain Hunt expert, she displays impeccable taste and seems to have a genuine desire to see her team win. Her good humour and obvious sense of fun make her seem like a truly nice person without being sickly or sentimental. Add this to her stylish taste, wealth of knowledge and enjoyment for the unusual and quirky object she sees the possibilities in the most bizarre or unassuming of objects.

As an auctioneer she is spell binding. Anita Manning transforms her auction room into real life theatre that makes her one of the best auctioneers to watch. She combines a persuasive and descriptive turn of phrase with extravagant gestures, sometimes standing up quickly when prices get particularly exciting, that brings a real buzz into the saleroom. Many other auctioneers can only envy this style.

What is not so usual about this result is that it seems that contrary to current BBC thinking. With the generally accepted BBC viewpoint that women over the age of 40 are not suitable for TV. Anita is another woman who has certainly bucked this trend.


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BBC Bargain Hunt - David Harper Biography

David Kingsley Harper (born 1967) is a British TV antiques expert and published writer.

He is an expert on BBC's Bargain Hunt; Put your Money where Your Mouth Is, Cash in the Attic and The Antiques Road Trip.

He has featured on Through the Keyhole, Ready Steady Cook and presented pieces for The One Show, Inside Out and Country file Summer Diaries.

Although David is from the north of England and lives in Teesdale in South Durham, he also spent several years growing up in Africa and went to school in Zimbabwe.

From the age of 18, David spent 20 years self employed in Business. In his time, he has owned and run many businesses from printing companies to property developing - in fact since the age of 18 he’s been self employed.

In this time he has in fact had one job in the corporate world, where, because of his antique expertise was offered the position of sales director of a Thai/UK PLC company which imported antique style rubber wood furniture from the far east.

At 25, David was one of the youngest sales directors of a PLC in Britain.

David found his way into TV through his lifelong passions for antiques and classic cars. His first TV role was in 2005 as presenter of Channel 4's Natural Born Dealers.

Since then David has presented shows for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 including Country file, Inside Out, Bargain Hunt, The Heaven & Earth Show, The One Show, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and Natural Born Dealers. He’s also appeared on Celebrity Ready Steady Cook and has been featured on Through the Keyhole.

Antiques have always been David’s passion and he has been an antique dealer for more than 20 years, working with collectors, dealers and designers from all over the world, exhibiting at international top end fairs, writing for newspapers and magazines and buying for private and corporate clients.

He’s bought and sold individual items from a few pounds to tens of thousands of pounds. David has over 40 internationally published antique articles to his credit and has an antique shop in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham (home of the Bowes Museum)

David Harper Antiques.

BBC Bargain Hunt - Anita Manning Biography

Classy Scot Anita Manning is a long term expert on BBC's Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road trip and Flog it.

Her infectious enthusiasm for her subject has made her an ambassador for the antiques profession.

Anita's always been interested in antiques, and has been buying and selling them for forty years. She runs an auction house in Scotland with her daughter Lala.

Anita's specialist area is paintings, and her favourite era is 20th Century Scottish contemporary artists.

Anita Louisa Manning was born on the 1st December in Glasgow.
Growing up in the 50s and 1960s Anita Manning was not a fan of the contemporary design and trends and preferred the Victorian look and feel of her grandparents’ house.

As a child her father used to take her to the auctions. She grew to love this environment with its treasures, excitement and its sense of theatre

Anita enjoyed finding and wearing stylish 20, 30,s and 40,s clothes to go out in at the weekends,

Anita Says: “I need colour in my life”.

In 1988 her skill at both buying and selling antiques led her to establish Great Western Auctions Ltd in Glasgow and was probably Scotland’s first female Auctioneer.

Anita was made for this stage; she has not been labelled the 'Golden Gavel' without cause. The toast of the Fred McAuley Show (every morning on Radio Scotland) she puts her talents to good use.

Anita Pulls in the punters and makes the auction user friendly and pure theatre.

Anita says:
“There has been an elimination of the rarefied atmosphere of the bigger auction houses”. You can relax and enjoy the sale and bid for anything from a box of pots from a house clearance to a Georgian Bureau”.

Spend a fiver or five thousand - you will always go away happy and be back for more.



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This edition contains complete cycles of silver marks for all the important Assay Offices, with variations shown for gold, platinum, Britannia Standard, import marks, etc, and has been updated to 1991 to include current assay marks.  See on Amazon UK

BBC Bargain Hunt - David Barby Biography

If David Barby had a motto it would be "Have Gavel Will Travel"!

David has been interested in the arts, and in fine furniture, all his life. His enthusiasm and experience are well known from his many TV and radio appearances.

During the last ten years he has been involved as an expert on BBC's Bargain Hunt and valuer on programmes as diverse as "20th Century Antiques Road Show", "Antiques Road Trip" and "Flog It".

He also hosts antique and fine art themed lectures and talks throughout the country and on cruise liners around the world.

David says,
"There is nothing more enjoyable than speaking to people with a common interest, sharing anecdotes and experiences of acquiring collections or endeavouring to build up enthusiasm for the subject".

David Samuel Barby was born on the 29th May 1948 in Derbyshire. Eldest of three children he has a younger brother John and his younger sister Caroline.

David’s first interest in antiques began when he was just 12 and he has continued to be fascinated with antiquities ever since.

His qualifications were gained by examination with the Society of Landed Property Agents in 1963 and he is now a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

After operating a Fine Art Saleroom in Leamington Spa for twenty five years, he decided to specialise in valuations and created his own company with the sole purpose of providing a service relating to various aspects of chattels.

With a natural curiosity for people, their possessions and the environment, nothing gives him greater gratification than entering a client's property and commencing on a voyage of discovery.

David gains a terrific amount of pleasure when examining an object and understanding the function within an historical and social context.

With over 30 thirty years behind the rostrum as a freelance auctioneer David Barby now sells at Morphets Saleroom in Harrogate at their fortnightly and fine art sales.

BBC Bargain Hunt - Phillip Serrell Biography

Plain talking Grammar School boy Phillip Serrell was born and brought up in Worcestershire where he is now established as a professional auctioneer.

Well known for his television appearances on various antiques programmes, Philip is also an accomplished after dinner speaker and a welcome attraction with his new show 'An Auctioneer's Lot' in which he recounts enthralling stories drawn from his life experiences in sport, antiques, auctioneering, broadcasting and writing books.

He graduated from Loughborough College of Physical Education as sport was, and is, an enduring passion...

“If I had devoted as much time to academia as I did to cricket and rugby I would surely have been, at the very least, a double Oxbridge first,” he says.

However, life as a sports teacher was not for him and he took up the post of trainee auctioneer in Worcester, working in the local livestock market – much of the time spent cleaning out the sheep pens…

“a task, some would maintain, I was suitably qualified for, as by then I was completely unemployable.”

From there Philip re-qualified as a Chartered Surveyor, specialising as a Fine Art and Antiques valuer, which in turn resulted in him running his own auctioneering business from his saleroom in Malvern and office in Worcester.

Philip recorded a regular antiques slot on his local BBC radio station, and from there he went on to become a resident ‘expert on BBC's Bargain Hunt’ He makes several BBC television antiques programmes – namely Bargain Hunt and Flog It!

More recently he has also appeared on the 20th Century Roadshow, presenting their classic car feature – a role which he embraced as it allowed him to indulge his other passion for motor cars.
During the course of the past twenty years he has uncovered a huge range of priceless (and worthless) antiques, and along the way, met, done business with and befriended folk from some odd corners of English Life.

In his first book, "An Auctioneer’s Lot", he brings to life a world in which the most valuable antiques frequently turn up in the most unlikely places – and accompanied by the most colourful characters - from a priceless 18th Century dining table hidden away in a decaying potting shed, to that of a tattooed gypsy with a penchant for Worcester Porcelain.

An Auctioneers Lot by Phillip Serrell

BBC Bargain Hunt - Tim Wonnacott Biography

Tim started attending auctions from a very tender age, watching his father conduct sales for the family firm during the school holidays.

His first experience of auctioneering (selling the contents of a kitchen at the end of a farm sale) when aged around 16 or so, led him to pursue a career as a professional in the auction and property business.

Qualifying as a Chartered Auctioneer and Chartered Surveyor enabled him to gather considerable experience in the provinces, but in order to further his interest in the field of Fine Art auctioneering; he was inevitably drawn to London.

Following a post-graduate course at the V & A’s study centre for the Fine and Decorative Arts, he joined Sotheby’s in London in 1978, becoming a junior Director in 1983 and full Director in 1985.

In September 1998, he was appointed Chairman of Sotheby’s South saleroom in Sussex and in 2001, became Chairman of Sotheby’s new saleroom at Olympia in London, dual roles which he held until January 2003.

Tim started his career at Sotheby’s nearly 25 years ago in London, working principally in the Furniture Department.

His main area of expertise lies in this field, but over the last twenty years with Sotheby’s, he developed a considerable breadth of experience throughout the decorative arts, including clocks, barometers, 19th century sculpture and works of art, ceramics and silver. He has conducted auction sales throughout the United Kingdom, North America and such far flung places as India!

Tim is now very well known as master of ceremonies and expert on BBC's Bargain Hunt.

Tim has helped many Charities over the years to raise money at auction, the most successful of which was the London ‘Cow Parade’ auction held in autumn 2002, which raised over £400,000 for Childline!