Category: Antiques & Collectables

BBC Flog It! coming to Aston's Auctioneers in Dudley

23/8/2017

We are delighted to announce that Paul Martin and the BBC Flog It! team will be coming to film at our Antiques & Collectables Auction in October.

The official Flog It valuation day will take place at the Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford on Thursday 5th October 2017. Doors are open to the public from 9.30am to 4pm.

Star lots taken in at the valuation day will then be sold as part of our Antiques & Collectables Auction on Thursday 26th October - with the BBC team on site to film the action.

THE TIMES ARTICLE - 15th April 2017

15/4/2017

Score! The return of the pinball wizards

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-arcade-games-are-back-in-fashion-dcl0mw9gk

........... Yet there is a market for older machines that are not operational. Aston’s Auctioneers, the auction house, sold more than 200 items on behalf of the Arne Toy Museum in Dorset when it closed in 2013, with items going for four-figure sums.
A Laughing Sailor slot machine from the 1950s sold for £3,600. Chris Aston, the managing director of Aston’s Auctioneers, says: “It is a niche, but fascinating area. When you get something like this there will be lots of demand.” .................

Bache Cycles retro ex-shop stock bicycle horde

14/8/2015

The sport of Mountain Biking began in the 1970's in Colorado and California in the USA and back then the slang term given to bikes used for riding off-road was 'clunkers'!

Early pioneers included Gary Fisher (shown left) who set up his own bicycle company along with Charlie Kelly in 1979 - apparently Kelly coined the phrase 'Mountain Bike' and the duo called their company simply MountainBikes.

We recently had the job of clearing out the old stock of a local long-standing bicycle and toy shop - Bache Brothers in Lye (near Stourbridge, West Midlands)

Bache Brothers Cycles is now under new management and specialises in the latest new bikes from Kona, Orbea, Cotic, etc.

www.bachebrotherscycles.co.uk

The clearance includes approximately 400 retro bicycles, BMXs and Mountain Bikes which will all be sold without reserve on Thursday 20th August 2015.

Most of the bikes are untouched in their original shipping cartons and manufacturers include Gary Fisher, Diamondback, Raleigh, Dawes, Scott, Claude Butler, Emmelle and Universal.

Here's the link to the auction catalogue

Some of the bikes in our warehouse ready for sale!

Scott Timber bike similar to lot 338 in the auction

BBC Flog It! coming to Aston's Auctioneers in Dudley

THE TIMES ARTICLE - 15th April 2017

Score! The return of the pinball wizards

Bache Cycles retro ex-shop stock bicycle horde

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