TOMORROW Sunday 18th November : UK's BIGGEST Vintage Amusements Auction
Saturday early hours update:
Catalogue finished! - View catalogue online
- or - download a Simple black & white catalogue to print off (PDF)
- or - download the Full colour photo catalogue to print off (PDF)
Want to buy but can't make it to the auction sunday? see our absentee bidding instructions
Huge pile of emails to go through - don't panic, will get to them... but lots still to do first in preparation for Sunday!
Tight for time as always, but it's by far the biggest vintage coin-op auction of 2018!
October Update... THE ALL CLEAR and AUCTION TIME!!
Fantastic News! Auctioneer Gloria has received the all-clear following major cancer surgery early this year and a long gruelling course of chemotherapy. It's been a very long, stressful, extremely unpleasant process - we're sure most of you can relate from personal / family experience - but it worked!. So she'll be back wielding the gavel on 18th November - be warned!
New website / online auctions: We've been trying to finish off work to the outside of the Elephant House that required scaffolding, so that it can all come down before November's auction, hence there's still a little more website programming of the back-office management side of things still to do. After the November auction is done and dusted, we'll finish that off for final testing with a view to launching in the new year. Yes, later than originally hoped for, but sure you can understand there's been more important things going on this year!!
If you haven't yet checked out how the new website will look and work, see the Online Auction Page here which has more information and a couple of brief videos showing the system in operation.
Deliveries: Just about caught up with the odd straggling deliveries over summer. May still be one or two things that have been carefully stored away for safe keeping whilst building work has been going on. Worry not, whatever it is will be here somewhere safely cocooned in bubble wrap!
Payments in / out: With everything that's been going on, there's a few lingering invoices we've been slow in chasing up, or it has been difficult at times getting in contact etc. So if you've been meaning to pop in and collect that odd thing you bought but unsure when we'll be around, or didn't want to hassle us in the current circumstances, do get in touch so we can clear things up. Similarly, there's a few envelopes in the tin for monies from the last auction or two that people haven't collected - again arrange a time to pop in and collect or of course we can do a bank transfer. Either way, we're not always at the Elephant House armed with paperwork at the moment, so don't risk a journey without arranging a time first!
More news very soon... watch this space!
POSTPONED to JANUARY 2019 : Elephant House £1 Clearout - NO RESERVES
We may start off the online auctions with this stuff to test it out... if there's a hiccup with a £1 item, hopefully no-one will get too upset!
We'll be clearing the Elephant House of all the stuff that's accumulated over the past 12 months or so - including unsold items that are lingering around, items that have never been collected by buyers / sellers, or just random stuff that came in with other consignments, but didn't really fit into the normal 'theme' of our auctions. Everything goes under the hammer at NO RESERVE - and everything starts at £1!
We've found 148 lots so far, but there's still quite a bit to sort out - so check back soon for updates. To see what's listed so far, have a look here
NOTE: if you spot something of yours listed that you'd rather have back, then get in touch ASAP and come fetch it - otherwise it gets SOLD! - we need the space.
Results of Sunday 26th November : Vintage Amusements
To finish the year off - the UK's biggest auction of Vintage Slot Machines. We also sold lots of Enamel Signs, Fairground Art, and all sorts of other goodies.
Full prices achieved now available on the Results page, with six items making it into our top 100
