Season’s Greetings | Opening Hours

The Grosvenor office will close for the festive season at 2pm on Monday 23rd December and will reopen at 9:30am on Thursday 2nd January.

We would like to wish all of our clients an enjoyable festive period and look forward to being on service in 2025.… Read more...

 

Ben Palmer joins the Grosvenor team

We are delighted to welcome Ben Palmer FRSPC, FBSAP, FIPJF, AIEP, APR who joins Grosvenor bringing significant experience from working at two previous auction houses over a number of years.

 

Ben’s strength is in British Empire, particularly 19thand 20th century postal history. He is a both a National and International Judge and Fellow of the FIP Jury. He won the National Research Award in 2014 and … Read more...

 

Boiling Over

Over two sticky July days in central London the Grosvenor Summer Auction blew away all expectations,  raising over £1 million for its delighted vendors. The bidding was hot, the prices hotter still, as three auctioneers battled to control waves of online bidding that arrived to compete with pre-sale bids and the challenges of attendees in the room.

The auction contained several important offerings, the first being the John Ineson collection … Read more...

 

The Curate’s Egg

Like the proverbial curate’s egg, parts of this auction were excellent, despite a disappointing number of lots that failed to find new homes. Collections and selections that provided depth of interest for collectors and potential for dealers attracted particularly enthusiastic bidding whilst some ‘old favourites’ were disappointing on the day.

Notable individual results included the 1840 Mulready 1d. letter sheet overprinted “SPECIMEN” from the unlisted stereo A16 [lot 383… Read more...