Selling at Rushbrooks
1. What would you like to sell?
Rushbrooks consigns a wide variety of objects, with a particular focus on jewellery, silver, ceramics, works of art and pictures.
2. What is it worth?
Managing Director, Iain Rushbrook, can conduct valuations in-home, with our specialists able to make an appointment to visit you at your convenience. We cover London, Hampshire and the surrounding areas, including The Home Counties and beyond. You can also have your items valued free of charge using the online valuations form.
3. Valuation and appraisal
The experienced specialists at Rushbrooks will value the objects before they are presented for sale. Together we will agree a reserve price, below which the object will not be sold. If the reserve price is not achieved, the object will be relisted for sale.
4. The object is catalogued
The specialists study the object thoroughly and write an informative description together with a condition report, covering maker, artist, the year of manufacture, and any known provenance.
5. The object is photographed
The auctioneer’s professional photographer takes multiple photographs of your object, from different angles to give an all round impression. The buyer therefore feels fully informed and confident in bidding up to their maximum price.
6. Publishing online
Your object, together with detailed images and cataloguing, is uploaded to auctionet.com. Auctionet has 300,000 registered clients and is viewed by more than 40,000 individual visitors every day. This wide client base helps objects in a niche collecting area find the right buyer and likewise popular items reach a larger audience.
7. Going, going, gone!
When the auction has started you can follow the bidding in real time, through the Auctionet app or on the webpage. After the auction has closed, you will receive a detailed report via email. The open bidding and the clearly stated commission fees keep buyers and sellers informed and up to date throughout the process.
8. The object finds a new home
The successful bidder is contacted and pays the stated final price to the auctioneer. Auctions at Auctionet run every day of the year and the process is completed swiftly from consignment through to selling.
9. You receive payment
As a seller, you will receive your proceeds approximately 30 days from the close of the auction.
What we sell
Antique – Vintage – Contemporary – Jewellery – Watches – Silver - Fine Art – Luxury and Designer – Chinese and Japanese Objects and Works of Art – Islamic Objects and Works of Art – Paintings and Prints – Sculpture – Bronzes – Furniture – Clocks, Barometers and Instruments — Porcelain and Pottery – Glassware – Metalwares – Coins and Banknotes – Medals and Decorations – Wine – Postage Stamps and Philately – Books and Manuscripts – Carpets and Rugs – Cars – Boats – Toys – Collectables – Garden furniture – and much much more.