Forum Auctions in July is soon celebrating their 5th anniversary and are conducting a series of sales – both online only and ‘traditional’ – over the course of the spring and into the early summer months to celebrate the achievement. Their calendar of events, from now into July, is diverse and impressive:
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Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper |
6th May |
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Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper |
19th May |
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Online Sale: Images of Angling: the David Beazley Collection of Angling |
20th May |
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Prints and Editions |
20th May |
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Prints and Editions |
26th May |
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Only Banksy |
1st June |
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Online Sale: Travel Books, Maps and Atlases |
9th June |
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Online Sale: The Stephen White Space Collection |
10th June |
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Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper |
24th June |
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Prints and Editions |
5th July* |
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Only Banksy |
6th July* |
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Signed and Inscribed: A Gentleman’s Library of Modern Literature |
7th July* |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper |
8th July* |
Since 2016 the firm has pioneered a trading model intermeshing weekly timed online-only auctions with bi-monthly higher value 'traditional' sales. The combination of these formats has proved popular with clients; swift turnaround times benefit sellers and the weekly revolving calendar provides buyers with an ever greater array of new items to bid on.
In July, almost exactly 5 years since their inaugural auction, Forum will hold their 250th auction and expect to record their 50,000th sold lot. Indeed, in December just past they reached a cumulative $63 million in auction sales for their first 4.5 years and are now regularly adding private treaty sales. Taken together, the firm's fresh goal as they approach their fifth anniversary is a new single year record - $35,000,000 to be achieved as they celebrate their anniversary this summer.
From a standing start they have become a major player!
- With so many sales, some scheduled dates may shift
