Downham Market | Auction Rooms

The Hawkins name is synonymous with auctions, Charles Hawkins having held his first auction in Downham Market, Norfolk over 170 year ago. Marcus, now the sixth generation auctioneer and surveyor, continues with the family business holding regular auctions throughout the year at our historic Downham Market Auction Rooms based in West Norfolk selling live on-line via our own website or www.the-saleroom.com.

We are also specialist auctioneers of classic cars, farm machinery, plant assets and equipment conducting sales either on the farm, business premises or remove items to one of our regular collective sales with the ability to sell live online via our own website or www.i-bidder.com & www.bidspotter.co.uk

Recent Highlights

Hammer: £420 1860 18ct gold pocket watch	Hammer: £2,600 Macallan 25 year old Anniversary Malt Whisky distilled 1974	An Omega Chronograph pocket watch '15571144' C.1900's, Gun metal case, with a white porceline face ' An Omega Chronograph pocket watch '15571144' C.1900's, Gun metal case, with a white porceline face 'Racine' Geneve, with inscription 'Commissioners of Irish lights' (The general Lighthouse authority for Northern Ireland) On a silver hallmarked chain - 1902. Also has a silver hallmarked fob/medal - Birmingham 1904 with Latin inscription 'Ex Terra Luciem' (From the ground light) also a watch chain wax seal (1850's?) with inscription 'Sine Qua Non'
Hammer: £600 Emergency Issue 1804 "crown"/dollar	Hammer: £4,400 Dunhill Aquarium table lighter:, each side with reverse painted intaglio fish and rock decoration on lucite panels, gilt mounts	Hammer: £520 Ebel, Gold plated, triple calendar moonphase wrist watch, no. 923P, circa 1950 Movement: Cal. Valjoux 90, manual wind, 17 jewels Case: Gold plated case, stainless steel snap case back Bracelet/Strap: Non-original stretch metal strap Size: 35mm
Hammer: £2,000 Abu Shakra, Walid (Palestinian 1946-2019) two black and white etchings, "Sand Storm", black and white etching, limited edition 6/40, signed and dated 1978 in pencil, and "Morning, approach to my village" black and white etching limited edition 5/25 signed and dated 1977 in pencil From his home in London where he lived from 1972, Abu Shakra made prints of the landscape in the area where he was born Umm Fahm, close to Haifa in present day Israel. The places are deserted, sometimes there is just	Hammer: £420 2013 Queen Elizabeth II gold full sovereign with CPM certificate, brilliant uncirculated issue	Hammer: £380 An Elizabeth II Bust 22ct gold uncirculated Sovereign, St George and the Dragon reverse, dated 2015, London mint, in plastic coin capsule
Hammer: £4,800 Jean-Jacques Feuchère 1807 - 1852 Satan, L'ange Dechu Signed and dated: Feuchere 1833 Bronze, dark brown patina 22cm high For any modern student of nineteenth century French sculpture, Jean-Jacques Feuchère's Satan has become one of the icons of the period, because it was selected as the front cover illustration of the pioneering exhibition The Romantics to Rodin, French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections in 1980	Hammer: £1,300 Jeremy Barlow (1945-2020) "Blakeney High Tide", signed, original canvas, picture 50 x 40cm framed 78cm x 67cm, framed in vintage gilt frame.	Hammer: £540 EDWARD HERSEY (BRITISH b. 1948), oil on board of young calves, signed, image size 16.5cm x 11.5cm, Framed in a good quality frame.
Hammer: £1,700 Circle of Louis de Caullery the Tower of Babel (Cambrai 1580-1621 Antwerp) oil on panel (43cm x 34cm) framed (59.5cm x 50cm) a modern frame Provenance: Private family collection, UK for approximately 110 years, in good general condition the painting was noted in a probate valuation undertaken by Sotheby's in the 1980's	Hammer: £1,100 Bechstein Grand Piano	Hammer: £780 JOHN PIPER, CH British (1903-1992). Sketch "Albert Road, London" in pencil Signed lower right, inscribed on paper backing "Commission for Sir John Betjeman - Oct 1975, "Shell Guides", watercolour 45 x 24cm., on verso in pencil "Bob Lewin"
Hammer: £580 1996 Salon Cuvee 'S' Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Brut 1 btl 750ml