Museums & Historic Sites

The team at Dawsons are consciously aware of the important role Museums and Historic Sites carry in the wider community. Indeed, ensuring that items with significant historical provenance continue to be enjoyed today also forms a large part of our world as Valuers & Auctioneers, we want those (often hidden away and forgotten) items to find loving homes once again, where they are displayed and enjoyed.

With no financial support from local or national government, we recognise that financially you rely on the generosity of supporters and visitors. Fully understanding of the monetary pressures that Museums and Historic Sites face, our aim is simple… We want to help you generate the additional revenue needed to ensure the longevity of your operation.

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HOW DAWSONS CAN HELP

• Advice & Support: We can help your organisation to set up a legacy scheme for items of value that supporters or visitors may wish to donate or gift to you, but which are not suitable for display.
• Additional Revenue: a route to sell donated or gifted items unsuitable for display that have an auction value.
• Free Valuations: Complimentary, discrete, and current market valuations in-person or remotely – to help identify items not suitable for display, but that may be suitable for sale at auction.
• Collection Service: Offering a free collection of those items identified as being suitable for sale at auction.
• Zero Seller’s Fees: We agree to waive our Seller’s Fee (17.5%), meaning that you will receive 100% of the hammer price achieved (sale price) of items we auction on your behalf.
• Event Support:  We can help increase footfall at certain fund-raising events you may be planning; providing experienced speakers (auction industry experts) from within our team to talk around topics of interest.

WHO ARE DAWSONS?

• Leading international Auctioneers (& Valuers)

• With an auction logistics centre in Berkshire, a valuations office in London, and making house calls Nationwide, our experts can help value, market, and sell Fine Jewellery, Watches, Fine & Contemporary Art, Antiques, Asian Art, Wine, Motor Vehicles and Collectibles.
• Sales are broadcast live across multiple auction platforms to a global audience of over 10 million active bidders for maximum worldwide exposure.
• Our in-house marketing team will directly target buyers and collectors all over the world via creative social media posts and dynamic marketing, to secure the highest sale prices for our clients. 
• Members of the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers (SOFAA) and the Art Loss Register 
• Our team of professionals, consists of RICS qualified and Gemmologically qualified valuers (FGA/DGA accredited)