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    Affordable Auctions

    Everything has a reserve of £10. The Amati Affordable auction provides an opportunity for neglected instruments to find a new home. These sales are unique within the industry and are hugely popular around the world.
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    The perfect place to pick up a good quality violin for daily use, a child’s first instrument or a cello to restore, spare fingerboards, chin rests, pegs and tools.

    Amati Affordable Auctions are run slightly differently from the Specialist Auctions. It is our usual practice not to put a reserve on items sold through an Amati Affordable Auction. In economists’ terms, we let the market decide what an instrument is worth.

    We find that this works very well. The auctions are hugely popular with dealers and private customers alike. So, although all instruments in an Amati Affordable Auction have a starting price of £10, the great majority of the instruments sell for more than that, usually in the region of £200 to £5000. The highest price so far achieved for a single lot at an Amati Affordable Auction was £37,500.

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    We sell instruments made by great makers

    Bergonzi, Vuillaume, Testore, Gagliano, Amati, Sannino, Cappichioni, Klotz, Tecchler, Pedrazzini, and Rogeri. Amati also sell bows by well-known makers, such as Sartory, Peccatte, Lamy.

    We have achieved world records for a number of bows and instruments, including world records for a Vuillaume cello in 2014, a Tecchler violin, sold in 2014, and a Pedrazzini cello in 2016.

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    Words from our customers

    Thank you very much for your part in arranging our instrument valuation with Simon in Colchester yesterday. The experience greatly exceeded our expectations in the level of individual attention we received and care that he took over explaining the finer details. It was a very enjoyable and enlightening session; please pass on our thanks to him again,

    Elaine Henson and Stephen Mitchell

    Words from our customers

    Many thanks again to you and your colleagues, especially Oswald for the work undertaken to achieve a very good outcome in the sale of my violin and bow.

    Words from our customers

    I took my violin and a couple of bows to be valued at The Amati Exhibition at The Langham. The service was absolutely excellent. I was also shown the collection of instruments being auctioned and James Buchanan and his colleagues imparted so much knowledge and were really helpful and very friendly. Highly recommended!

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    Browsing and bidding for instruments takes place on our Live Online Auction page on the Amati website.

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    Single Owner Collection – 30th and 31st July 2025

    Catalogue Launch Date:
    18 Jul 2025

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    Amati Specialist Auction – 25th June 2025

    Catalogue Launch: 13th June

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    Single Owner Collection – 24th September 2025

    Catalogue Launch Date:
    12 Sept 2025

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