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![Timed Auction: Jewellery, Pictures, Works of Art & Collectables, Ceramics, Furniture, Books, etc](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10159/images/8ed03c59-19c1-4303-881c-b18f00cd707a.jpg?h=1000)
![East Down Manor-The Collection of the Late Simon Scott-Brown](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10157/images/7eb3447d-e794-4acc-9fa4-7e17b69a5af2.jpg?h=1000)
![The Silver & Jewellery Auction - 4th and 5th June 2024](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10153/images/5484d96c-4782-4fe7-a97e-984a65c1b465.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Books](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10156/images/f288b4d4-b7f3-4b3d-9824-b84387e44eb0.jpg?h=1000)
![Antiquarian Book Sale](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10150/images/0b9653f7-e5f2-4164-a5e6-1314abb89d24.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Jewellery, Silver, Books etc.](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10155/images/c9d6853a-a803-49a0-9aaf-b1640114c284.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Furniture, Works of Art, Pictures, Ceramics, Books, Sporting & Collectors](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10154/images/bcd0be3b-4f36-49fd-b079-67d64be5cee3.jpg?h=1000)
![The Spring Auction - 16th & 17th April 2024](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10147/images/7ba8730c-0d43-4b68-b741-5a1ad29f7e07.jpg?h=1000)
![The Sporting & Collectors Auction 19th & 20th March](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10146/images/ab029751-7d44-4211-8784-a2335ead6ae3.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Ceramics, Silver, Jewellery, Pictures, Works of Art, Furniture, Books, etc](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10152/images/4fd7eb14-942a-4cce-9231-e4106dca0914.jpg?h=1000)
![The Silver and Jewellery Auction: 27th / 28th February 2024](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10144/images/504c49cc-d0b0-4314-baa3-ba9ec745ed45.jpg?h=1000)
![20th Century & Contemporary Auction](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10143/images/2b782d20-225d-4875-ab2a-9c2601fba69a.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Pictures, Ceramics, Works of Art, Furniture, etc](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10148/images/6b856163-6680-4dce-8579-9397c84f5059.jpg?h=1000)
![The Winter Auction - 16th & 17th January 2024](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10142/images/4a35e584-a2a8-432c-bbb8-449e8f6e74f3.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Books, Pictures, Ceramics, Silver, Collectors' Items etc.](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2024/bearne10145/images/45c27c8c-80f6-4775-ae62-b0de00ff725c.jpg?h=1000)
![Antiquarian Book Sale](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10138/images/e9010918-a9fb-41ee-b0b0-f26f73b80510.jpg?h=1000)
![The Banham Family Magic Lantern Collection](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10139/images/83f70c57-9100-4345-96f8-163240a27abc.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Silver, Jewellery, Luxury Goods, Pictures, Furniture, etc.](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10141/images/bcd237d1-3adc-480e-93fa-b0c400bb39e7.jpg?h=1000)
![The Sporting & Collectors Auction 21st & 22nd November](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10137/images/d9ea1324-e7e2-46d6-8479-ab44f609c3ea.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: Ceramics, Works of Art, Pictures and Furniture, etc.](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10140/images/01fe1180-efa2-4f68-aaa3-0d8f3938c558.jpg?h=1000)
![The Silver, Jewellery & Luxury Items Auction: 31st October & 1st November 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10133/images/2c09b01c-3b2d-461c-b1b6-ed651a3cbbc1.jpg?h=1000)
![The Autumn Auction - 10th & 11th October 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10132/images/fafcb94c-5088-4225-a33c-f1f9f9e60b23.jpg?h=1000)
![Timed Auction: 20th Century Pictures, Furniture & other items](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10136/images/bf2d380a-b2a5-4f4b-86a3-1161d4693f05.jpg?h=1000)
![Children's Hospice South West - BEAR HUNT 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10135/images/c7ed38c6-5a48-4f5e-9a15-45f264b92e34.jpg?h=1000)
![20th Century & Contemporary Auction](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10129/images/2fe96d13-6b32-453e-9a15-62075665b5e1.jpg?h=1000)
![A Timed Auction - Jewellery, Silver, Furniture, Sporting & Collectors](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10134/images/11fe2af2-17a1-4355-90d6-fe4d538dff96.jpg?h=1000)
![The Sporting & Collectors Auction 22nd and 23rd August](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10128/images/4c6d5514-1469-4178-99b2-a9a54be74136.jpg?h=1000)
![The Collection of the Late Donald Collins](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10130/images/7bc9921f-65c1-4cde-8a52-d313ba3b5bd0.jpg?h=1000)
![The Silver & Jewellery Auction - 1st & 2nd August 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10127/images/69d89cc0-9b6f-4415-90ab-7b80debf6196.jpg?h=1000)
![A Timed Auction - Furniture, Clocks and Paintings (no reserve)](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10131/images/babeed6e-0943-4ee2-bcd1-36ce4cd64a2e.jpg?h=1000)
![The Summer Auction - 11th / 12th July 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10126/images/5b5b1e0b-a1d6-4a52-8661-dde8cc15d642.jpg?h=1000)
![Maritime Sale 20th June](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10125/images/c6d2fe0c-bbe3-4195-ba1d-4c2136fe32ce.jpg?h=1000)
![Antiquarian Book Sale](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10124/images/554d4ff7-b7f8-441d-9e78-1d95f2f1f7d9.jpg?h=1000)
![Silver & Jewellery Sale - 16th and 17th May 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10123/images/90847e74-9e4d-4e21-bd00-817b2b26ea01.jpg?h=1000)
![Spring Sale - 25th & 26th April 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10122/images/daffc167-91f8-4f55-92ab-fac9274c14e7.jpg?h=1000)
![Sporting & Collectors 21st and 22nd March 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10121/images/4f7493f8-1a6a-44f2-b1c2-d90553334234.jpg?h=1000)
![20th Century Sale - 28th February 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10120/images/a41cabc5-0e9d-464a-b00c-2046d0197334.jpg?h=1000)
![Silver & Jewellery Sale - 7th & 8th February 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10119/images/a58dd79f-7ad5-4285-9da8-0bc6cd5dfcff.jpg?h=1000)
![Winter Sale - 17th & 18th January 2023](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2023/bearne10118/images/798ed9e2-b09e-450f-b0ae-dacfdfe562b4.jpg?h=1000)
![Antiquarian Book Sale](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10117/images/84bf71d0-6e3e-4b28-8603-73b3df38d9e8.jpg?h=1000)
![Sporting & Collectors](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10116/images/1ce574ae-1a89-4b98-8735-a1d749250906.jpg?h=1000)
![Autumn Sale - 11th - 13th October](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10115/images/36c48ccb-56f1-4325-9db2-af1d00c69b19.jpg?h=1000)
![20th Century & Contemporary](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10114/images/975ba059-9552-41e1-ab18-aefb00a6f3dd.jpg?h=1000)
![Summer Sale - 13th 14th 15th July](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10111/images/1d32b38e-09ac-4406-bf4b-10029119d601.jpg?h=1000)
![The Cauldron, the Spit and the Fire - The Collection of Robert Deeley](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10110/images/c7aa375b-a88f-4b1a-8a90-5b5a01132dba.jpg?h=1000)
![Maritime Sale](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10109/images/721af753-3808-4000-bc2c-b25b32238919.jpg?h=1000)
![Antiquarian Books, Maps and Prints - ONLINE sale only](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10108/images/f4a80d76-2785-4c5c-a712-ae7700d666d3.jpg?h=1000)
![Quarterly Fine Sale - 26th & 27th & 28th April](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10107/images/34dab730-67b7-45ee-8101-ae7000b73bb7.jpg?h=1000)
![Sporting & Collectors](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10106/images/dbea8a0c-0f15-4f74-9c4a-60822e4e29e4.jpg?h=1000)
![20th Century & Contemporary Sale](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10105/images/dd9a821e-0013-41a9-972e-ae2800ca14e7.jpg?h=1000)
![Quarterly Fine Sale - 18th, 19th , 20th January 2022](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2022/bearne10104/images/ab657b28-250b-4c2e-af2f-ae0501025dac.jpg?h=1000)
![Antiquarian Book Sale - ONLINE only Sale](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10103/images/8d78131e-0310-48e9-9d60-0d90b3f6c8c9.jpg?h=1000)
![Sporting & Collectors including Maritime Collectables](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10102/images/db09a65b-7ca5-47c4-a971-038290d6d80b.jpg?h=1000)
![An Important Collection of British Antarctic ‘Terra Nova’ Expedition archive material of Francis Davies & Maritime Auction - 19th October 2021](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10101/images/a314759c-2ac2-4364-a6d3-ac93128e9e30.jpg?h=1000)
![Quarterly Fine Sale - 5th and 6th October 2021](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10100/images/c4fb4f3f-a194-4f52-8003-8db33d309ea3.jpg?h=1000)
![Golden Moor Otters Charity Auction](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10097/images/741b7bec-a26b-493f-a049-ad3400d83162.jpg?h=1000)
![Moor Otters Charity Timed Auction](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10096/images/acfe3ea4-0e6a-483e-86b2-ad3400da5f0d.jpg?h=1000)
![The Mark Lane Collection of Medals, Militaria, Vintage Bicycles & Collectables & Other Properties](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10099/images/3db522d5-55f4-4805-860f-ad6e0107adaf.jpg?h=1000)
![Quarterly Fine Sale - 13th - 15th July](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2021/bearne10098/images/a3e304c8-27eb-4a62-ba4f-ad5700c7d79e.jpg?h=1000)
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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood was formed in January 2009 when Bearnes and Hampton & Littlewood merged to bring together their complementary expertise in the fine art auction and valuation market to form the largest fine art auction house in the South West of England.
The firm covers Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset. It regularly attracts buyers from around the World who are able to bid online at all of the firm's major sales.
The firm's history stretches back to 1945 when Arthur Bearne established auction rooms in Torquay, which were expanded by his son Brian. The firm realised its first auction record in 1963 when it sold a Spode dinner service from Saltram House on behalf of The National Trust for £3,400.
Bearne's subsequently identified other important works of art including an unrecorded Hogarth portrait, which sold in 1967 for £24,000. In 1968, after extensive research, an Hawaiian wood bowl brought back to England from Captain Cook's third voyage and originally in the collection of Sir Ashton Lever, realised £15,000, which was a world record at that time for any item of ethnological art.
In 1976, Bearne's formed a close association with Sotheby's and in 1977 became part of the London company and operated from Rainbow, an imposing mansion overlooking Torbay. The Torquay business operated under the name of Sotheby Bearne until 1982 when, following a reorganisation throughout Sotheby's worldwide, a partnership was formed to re-acquire and continue the business.
In 1997, in order to develop the business further, Bearne's relocated to Exeter, Devon's capital city. The salerooms at St Edmund's Court in Okehampton Street were purpose built and have proved to be an ideal location from which to expand.
Christopher Hampton and Rachel Littlewood established Hampton & Littlewood in 2001, specialising in antiquarian books, maritime and sporting sales as well as holding regular sales of selected antiques in salerooms previously occupied by the internationally renowned auction house Phillips. Christopher Hampton was the former South West Regional Director for Phillips, while Rachel Littlewood was the firm's Probate Manager in the West Country. Hampton & Littlewood have built strong links with the professional community in Exeter and had sales in excess of £1.4M in 2008.
More LessBearnes Hampton & Littlewood was formed in January 2009 when Bearnes and Hampton & Littlewood merged to bring together their complementary expertise in the fine art auction and valuation market to form the largest fine art auction house in the South West of England.
The firm covers Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset. It regularly attracts buyers from around the World who are able to bid online at all of the firm's major sales.
The firm's history stretches back to 1945 when Arthur Bearne established auction rooms in Torquay, which were expanded by his son Brian. The firm realised its first auction record in 1963 when it sold a Spode dinner service from Saltram House on behalf of The National Trust for £3,400.
Bearne's subsequently identified other important works of art including an unrecorded Hogarth portrait, which sold in 1967 for £24,000. In 1968, after extensive research, an Hawaiian wood bowl brought back to England from Captain Cook's third voyage and originally in the collection of Sir Ashton Lever, realised £15,000, which was a world record at that time for any item of ethnological art.
In 1976, Bearne's formed a close association with Sotheby's and in 1977 became part of the London company and operated from Rainbow, an imposing mansion overlooking Torbay. The Torquay business operated under the name of Sotheby Bearne until 1982 when, following a reorganisation throughout Sotheby's worldwide, a partnership was formed to re-acquire and continue the business.
In 1997, in order to develop the business further, Bearne's relocated to Exeter, Devon's capital city. The salerooms at St Edmund's Court in Okehampton Street were purpose built and have proved to be an ideal location from which to expand.
Christopher Hampton and Rachel Littlewood established Hampton & Littlewood in 2001, specialising in antiquarian books, maritime and sporting sales as well as holding regular sales of selected antiques in salerooms previously occupied by the internationally renowned auction house Phillips. Christopher Hampton was the former South West Regional Director for Phillips, while Rachel Littlewood was the firm's Probate Manager in the West Country. Hampton & Littlewood have built strong links with the professional community in Exeter and had sales in excess of £1.4M in 2008.