Hera sculpture inspired by a chance conversation by well known artist Michael Ayrton to be offered by Dore & Rees in their forthcoming Select Interiors auction on Tuesday 26 March 2024.

Message from Lee Young, Managing Director: I would like to start by saying a heartfelt thank you for your support during 2023. Without our clients, we would not have enjoyed such an exciting sale calendar and achieved such strong growth in specialist areas such as Fine Asian Art and Fine Watches.   

Dore & Rees in partnership with Argent Hong Kong held its first international auction - No Reserve Auction of the Contents of Three Private Estates on 5 December. The white glove auction saw energetic bidding from a packed saleroom, telephone bidders and online platforms easeyliveauction.com, the-saleroom.com and 51bidlive.com.

Dore & Rees to offer works by well known automata maker and artist Peter Markey in the forthcoming Select Interiors auction on Wednesday 18 October 2023

The team at Dore & Rees look forward to holding it’s second Curious and Collectable auction. The highlight is the Lord Lew Grade Collection which features personal items from the media mogul’s office and home.

A coal scuttle in the forthcoming Select Interiors auction on 26 April bears all the characteristics of a classic Pugin design and carries the Houses of Parliament insignia depicting a portcullis on one of the sloping hinged covers

The forthcoming Select Interiors auction on 25 January features cutlery that was part of the Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott from 1910 to 1913.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all at Dore & Rees, message from Managing Director, Lee Young

Dore & Rees is pleased to offer three pieces of royal interest in their forthcoming Select Interiors auction. The items are linked to Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer and come from the collection of the late Nigel Ricketts (1959-2022), a cabinet maker and furniture restorer, employed by the royal household at Windsor Castle between 1980-1985.

A 1935 MG NA MAGNETTE CUTS A DASH WITH A LIST OF GLAMOROUS OWNERS.  The first owner of this delightful two-tone example was American showgirl, dancer and actress Hazel Forbes-Richmond. After 3 years, she sold it to fellow thespian Frank Forest, an American operatic tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the 1930s and 1940s. Title passed to Californian-based Ward Kimball. Ward Kimball was a prominent animator for Walt Disney, who worked on films such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, and Bednobs and Broomsticks.

FILM: A UNIQUE MOVIE PRESS ARCHIVE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FILM MAGAZINE 'MOVIE' COMES TO AUCTION.  Comprising approximately 1,680 manila A4 alphabetically ordered envelopes containing film studios press releases photographs, press material, editorial magazine material and transparencies of well over a thousand actors dating from the post-war period and up to the 1980s.

Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in Egypt, 332BC, is believed to be where cameo carving was established.

Pictures attributed to well-known artists from The John Airey Collection to be offered on 24 August at Dore & Rees’s Select Interiors auction

Dore & Rees and Nick Wells to feature in The Car Years on ITV4, returning to screens on Tuesday evenings from 9 August

‘Ever Wondered What It’s Worth?’ event with Frome Festival a resounding success

A delightful head of a theatre mask continues to charm and beguile the collector with a very rare opportunity to acquire it.

The Collection of Eleanor “Kitty” Davies will be offered in forthcoming auctions of Select Interiors (29 June) and Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu (6 July)

Lee Young, Managing Director of Dore & Rees and Susan Rumfitt announce that they will be holding joint auctions at Dore & Rees’ auction salerooms in Frome. This strategic partnership will enable them to work on two joint Jewellery auctions a year in addition to continuing their individual successful businesses under their own leadership.

Record breaking prices keep rolling in for Frome auctioneers Dore & Rees with the highest priced lot ever purchased on the premises - 1959 Gibson Les Paul ‘Burst’ - selling for £172,000 on Wednesday 16 March.

Often regarded as the finest of W.O.Bentley’s efforts (and let us not forget this is one with an exceptional Curriculum Vitae), the Lagonda V12 was by far the standout British model of its day, seated firmly in an exclusive club of 1930s road cars that could exceed 100mph in standard tune.