Dore & Rees hosted The Hemington House Collection Private View and Talks on 6 March at The Silk Mill in Frome. It is no overstatement to say that this a collection amassed by a truly extraordinary couple, Simon & Jennifer Murray, who collectively have excelled to the limits of what’s possible - in business, world records and daring do!

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 is hosting a Private View & Talk by special guest Grant Ford, Painting and Prints Expert on BBC Antiques Roadshow, for the forthcoming auction The Ralph Bateman Collection featuring paintings by Moise Kisling

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.

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

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)

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.

Paintings by the British artist captured the hearts of many followers including Royalty

On 16 March, Dore & Rees will offer a private collection of guitars

The John Sieverdink collection coming to Dore & Rees on Wednesday 2 March

We are delighted to offer the personal collection of locally admired connoisseur, Ronald Hazell, for sale on 24 June.