The catalogue for the auction of Antique and Later Furniture and Effects is now online. We are currently uploading the images. If you would like further images or a condition report on any lot, please contact the office on 01787 880305 or email olivers@sworder.co.uk

We are holding two specific valuation days on Monday 15th and Friday 19th June. These encompass Silver, Pictures, Arms and Armour, Medals and Objets d'Art. Please call to make an appointment to see a valuer.

If you have any items, in any field of Art and Antiques, which you would be interested in selling, or would like to know more about, please do not hesitate to contact us. Appointments can be made either at your home, or here at the saleroom. There is no charge for us to look at items which may be for possible sale.

Tel: 01787 880305 or email olivers@sworder.co.uk

If you are thinking of selling your items with Sworders in Sudbury, you can rest assured that ALL our auctions have an online catalogue as well as the normal printed catalogue. These are on our own website, (which had almost 2.3 million hits in May 2009), and also www.invaluable.com which is the premier international auction website. This ensures that your items are reaching a world-wide audience.

Based in Sudbury in Suffolk, Sworders Auctioneers sell to an international market. Our resident valuers and specialists cover Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Essex and London, and we also have regional representatives covering the Home Counties, the Midlands, and the West. To make an appointment, please call 01787 880305 or email olivers@sworder.co.uk

Please click on the download facility below for more information about selling with Sworders.

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Five lots of basket hilted swords total £8,900 hammer price. The five lots of swords from a single owner collection all flew well above the top estimate with strong bidding on the telephones and in the room. The top lot, pictured here, was a rare 17th Century Scottish basket-hilted back sword, which fetched £2,550.

Pablo Picasso, (1881-1973), an oval pottery plate, (chipped).

Hammer Price: £4,700

A Bovril enamel advertising sign.

Hammer Price: £2,600

An 18th/19th Century mother of pearl and gilt metal strung walking cane with associated bone knop, and a sectional horn and ivory walking stick. (2)

Hammer Price: £1,300

Taxidermy: a Victorian stuffed eight legged kitten.

Hammer Price: £1,250

The results for any past sale can be emailed or posted. Please contact the office for information on 01787 880305 or email olivers@sworder.co.uk