2023-08-27 09:00:00
Grandma’s collection of barely chipped porcelain cups… The old sideboard that Uncle Télesphore claims to be in the Henri XV style, or perhaps Louis XIX…
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The canvas that you suspect is an authentic Paul-Émile Borduas…
When is it worth using an auction house rather than listing on Marketplace or Kijiji?
“If you put an article on Kijiji or Marketplace and you receive 20 calls following an hour, be sure that you were wrong regarding the price, believe me”, replies Claude Champagne, president of Auctions Champagne. .
This is the main reason for using an auction house: to get the best price for an object that seems to have some value.
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Claude Champagne, President of Champagne Auctions
When people don’t know what they’re selling, they get screwed.
Claude Champagne, President of Champagne Auctions
He just has an example at hand.
“Someone came this morning with six paintings. All the paintings were worth $50 except one, which was worth $40,000. »
“It’s a painting from 1958 that is worth a fortune. We’re going to put it up for auction at the end of September and it’s going to get a lot of money for a painting that it would have gotten $50 for at a garage sale. »
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
Champagne Auctions buy everything.
Online auctions
The Champagne Auctions employ regarding ten people and hold 60 to 75 auctions each year. “We buy everything, from sports cards to antique furniture, describes Claude Champagne. We do regarding fifteen different auctions. »
These thematic auctions bring together works of art, fine wines, sports objects, military memorabilia, old books…
The auctions are held online for a few days, with a grand finale during the last hours. Each lot is accompanied by one or more photos and a short description.
Bidders can bid on the lots as long as the auction is open. On the last evening, the lots are auctioned off one following the other.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
Laurent Berniard, auctioneer at IEGOR
And at the auction
But the traditional auctions have not disappeared. IEGOR keeps them live on the internet “for things that are more important on a pecuniary level, that is to say [les] wine sales, [les] catalog sales, [les] Canadian art sales,” explains auctioneer Laurent Berniard. “I shout at the camera with my hammer. »
The auction takes place like an indoor auction, “except that there is no room, there is only me and people on the phone and on the sales platforms”.
For their part, Champagne Auctions plan to resume indoor auction sales in the fall in the premises of the Galerie Michel-Ange, which they recently acquired.
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This set of Batmobile pulling a boat Batboat on its trailer, from the Corgi Toys brand and dating from the late 1960s, was sold for $380.
An example at Champagne Auctions
Les Enchères Champagne also organizes what they call “discovery sales”, where disparate lots are put up for auction.
The discovery sale concluded on July 21 was held in two sessions of 265 lots and 274 lots: sports cards, beads, lithographs, more or less old books, old comic strips, watches, toys…
A set of Batmobile pulling a boat Batboat on its trailer, of the Corgi Toys brand and dating from the end of the 1960s, was presented there in six photos, original packaging included. Initially estimated between $300 and $600, the lot was sold for $380.
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