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11/05/13
Antiques Valuation Day at Chatelherault Country Park
Pamela Ritchie with Brooch 
Elizabeth Bromley, Argyll and Mrs Linnegan, Thornliebank 
The Duchess of Hamilton and Anita Manning 
Bank Holiday Monday 6th May 2013
We shall be closed on Monday 6th May 2013 for the May bank holiday.
Sale Highlights 16th March 2013
This sale was the penultimate before our good quarterly sale on the 30th of March. Amongst the lots that performed well was lot 300 a Horikawa tinplate space station in original box which sold for £580. As ever the term mint and boxed are the ideal buzz words for the keen collector.
Militaria is always a good seller at auction and Lot 375 A German helmet Luftschutz (Air raid service) made £300.
Likewise good ephemera has a strong global following i.e. Interesting letters, documents, postcards and autographs.
Lot 219 an autograph album including Henry Woods, Dicksee and Lord Falkland brought £300.
Another interesting item was Lot 254 a group of enamel bus company badges that produced £170.
The jewellery section and gold continues to be the best performing area within our sales.
Keep an eye on our next Fine sale. We have two viewing days the 28th and 29th with the sale on the 30th at 10am.
This has a good Asian Arts section, jewellery, paintings, furniture and works of art. One Easter related lot that might catch the eye is 802A The fourteen Stations of The Cross. These date to around 1900 and are made of painted plaster within, moulded oak frames. We look forward to seeing you at the sale.
19/03/13 Flog It
Great Western Auctions will be featured in tonight's episode of Flog It, on BBC1 at 4.30pm.
For more information visit the Flog It! website
14/03/13
Antiques Valuation Day at Chatelherault Country Park
11/03/13 Saleroom Latest News
Auction 2nd March 2013:
Amongst the more notable lots we had on offer were 286 a marine compass in case which sold for £1400.
One of the surprises in this sale came from a lot comprising approx. 550 glass picture slides. They dated from the 19th century onwards and included entomolgy, railway and children’s stories and in fact all sorts of topics, this realised £1300.
A popular lot was 233, thirteen printed theatre posters ranging in date from mid-19th to early 20th century.
One that caught my eye was a Glasgow Panopticon poster, which read Pickards December 22 ,1913. Acts included J.KMcFarlane, Shanlon Bros, Under Two Flags Carpenter versus Wells (Boxing match), Law & The Lady, Plumber & Lunatic (Dramas).
The lot produced £580.
The jewellery section continues to produce very healthy results for our sellers. Keep an eye on our Fine sale on the 30th of March.
Our next fortnightly sale is on the 16th of March at 10am.
21/02/13 Saleroom Latest News
Auction 16th February 2013:
A bright, sunny and crisp Saturday morning at Whiteinch greeted our customers. At this auction we produced the usual pleasant surprises for some of our sellers.
Namely Lot 624 A marble statue of young Hercules for £720.
Lot 644 Four small stained and leaded glass panels brought £1350.
Continuing to raise strong prices at auction Lot 7 we had three gold sovereigns which took £710.
An interesting group of items were lots 6,36,38, 40 and 42, gold medallions from 1854 made for The Fleshers of Glasgow
In the furniture section we had lot 660 a 19th century mahogany secretaire bookcase which took £600. Lot 672 Two Ercol blonde sideboards Made £460.
Our next sale is on the 2nd March this is followed by the 16th and then our Spring Fine Art and Antiques sale on the 30th.
Entries are invited for all these auctions.
06/02/13 Flog It! Trade Secrets
Watch our own Glasgow Girl, Anita and the other ‘Flog It!’ experts in the new series ‘Flog It: Trade Secrets’, on BBC2 from Monday 11th February at 6.30pm and every weeknight for 3 weeks.
For more information visit the Flog It! website
28/01/13 Saleroom Latest News
Auction 9th January 2013:
A good New Year to all of our customers.
It was with renewed vigour that we began our first sale of the year at Great Western Auctions. Fortunately, the weather held and the crowds as always descended in large quantities. We had a wide variety of lots on offer.
Amongst the highlights we sold were lot 201, a general group of coins that raised £1,550. In the jewellery section, that always performs well, we had lot 21 a diamond half hoop eternity ring, approx. 1 carat, made £1,050. Lot 85, a 9ct gold Albert chain sold for £400. Gold is holding up well and lot 23, two George V sovereigns and two half sovereigns bought £690.
In the collectors sections we had a postcard album, lot 156, raised £650. The main cards were St Andrews Golf Course in 1905.
The paintings all sold. Top prices being paid were £540 for lot 478, a pair of Van Staaten canal scenes. Lot 449 by Alfred Parsons, ‘Chickens’, made £480.
Ceramics and glass had the usual broad spectrum of tea services, Georgian glass, Border Fine Arts, Art Deco and Art Nouveau metalware, Scottish ceramics and country house residue.
Our next sale will be held on Saturday 2nd February 2013.
28/01/13 Antiques Road Trip
Anita and Jonathan Pratt will be battling it out on the Antiques Road Trip, every day this week, on BBC1 at 4.15pm from 28th January to 1st February. Says Antia “It was a rollercoaster ride and wonderful fun, as we drove our little classic car from Glasgow to Anglesey in Wales!"
This will also be available to watch on the BBC iPlayer for 7 days after broadcast
14/12/12 Christmas Closure 2012
Great Western Auctions will be closing on Thursday 20th December 2012 at 4:30pm and re-opening on Monday 7th January 2013.
We kindly request that all goods are paid for and collected before the holidays.
We would like to wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
11/12/12 Flog It!
Be sure to catch Flog It! this Monday (17th December 2012), on BBC2 at 4.30pm, to see all the action from our saleroom.
This will also be available to watch on the BBC iPlayer for 7 days after broadcast
12/10/12 Antiques Road Trip
See Anita and Philip Serrell travel through Scotland and the North of England in series five of the Antiques Road Trip. To be broadcast from Monday 15th October to Friday 19th October on BBC2 at 5.15pm.
This will also be available to watch on the BBC iPlayer for 7 days after broadcast
02/10/12 GWA Gets Social
Great Western Auctions now has an official Facebook. Don't Forget to Like us!
01/10/12 First Minister Visits GWA
Great Western Auctions were delighted to welcome The Right Honourable Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland to our quarterly sale of fine art and antiques on the 8th September 2012. The First Minister joined Anita on the rostrum for the sale of Alasdair Gray's "Bella Caledonia" used on the First Minister's chirstmas card for 2011- A splendid £4,800 was raised for the First Minister's charities.
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21/09/12 Bargain Hunt Transmission
An episode of Bargain Hunt filmed at Great Western Auctions will be broadcast on BBC1 on Wednesday 10th October at 12:15pm. Don't worry if you miss it, as this will also be available on the BBC iPlayer for 7 days.
20/08/12
08/08/12 Abbotsford House Antiques Roadshow
Saturday 4th August 2012
It was on a warm and sunny Saturday morning that Anita and the GWA team arrived at Sir Walter Scott’s home, Abbotsford. We had been invited to host a valuations day at the grounds
