Beech Auctions

05/06/2026

A super range of pin clean furniture in this weekend's auction from three properties plus antiques like Globe Wernike, Holland & Holland etc all details are in the catalogue......NO RESERVES .....bidding is open...here's a preview and the link to the full catalogue with lots so jewellery, electricals garden & tools etc https://beechauctions.co.uk/product-category/timed-online-auction/

26/05/2026

As if moving a clearance wasn't bad enough, a feed scoop and our Internet mast have melted today....thermometer was in the shade 11am!!

24/05/2026

Not got the best track record for getting out of baths gracefully, but today may just ice that biscuit!......after postponing our usual Bank Holiday Weekend Auction to 6th June due to hot weather forecast, we took a workshop clearance instead! But being under a perspex roof 'tis like working in a sauna! This ginger is getting grumpy and a horse trough plunge bath is calling.........taint gona be a good look in my 'Charlie Dimmock - the after years'
Hats off to Caterpillar boots though..images 6 years apart and boots still going strong!

22/05/2026

So the littering on South Hill Rd has excellerated from takeaway wrappers to Nitric Oxide Cannisters tossed in our gateway/banks. Laughing Gas is in the news at the mo as a 'new' inhalation high craze..like retro is back! FOR LORDS SAKE TAKE YOUR RUBBISH HOME OR IF TOO SCARED TO ...AT LEAST TO A BIN!!! Don't succombe to pier pressure and stay safe!

17/05/2026

The grandfather's WW1 medals and heavy wedding band, found and returned to the family who thought they were lost! We never sell possible sentimental items without checking first when clearing a property. One happy grandson.

26/04/2026

Today's auction stats 683lots
98.45% SOLD 9 remaining on buy nows one pending vendor decision. Here's s few highlights.....

25/04/2026

A great mix of lots in Sunday 26th April auction. From gold to militaria, garden items, tools, to furniture, craft, collectables etc a real mix for everyone!

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY 26th APRIL TIMED ONLINE AUCTION. The lots are live below and bidding is open. No time extensions or auto snipe. New clients will need to register (see top right) All hammer is subject to 20% buyer commission plus VAT. Collection by email appointment: Tues 28th- Thurs 30th 10am-...

25/04/2026

Clients ask why I do not have any charity boxes for animals other than the Launceston branch of Cats Protection league. This is because I have a home made collection box for The Gurkha Welfare Trust, a charity that is so very close to my heart and to which I am grateful for even existing. My father was stationed as an ambulance driver with the Gurkhas in Burma. Our counter top witnessed count up and transfer to the Gurkhas is: £59.60
not a huge amount but this charity always writes to thank us and is just that little bit extraordinary . I count myself as very lucky because of them.

25/04/2026

Cornish Tin Mining Ingot of Historical Archaeological/Nautical Wreck Salvage & Cornish Tin Mining Importance goes to auction this weekend online from Callington!
SS Cheerful was shipwrecked approx. 20 miles off of St Ives in 1885, after leaving Falmouth in poor visibility conditions and colliding with HMS Hecla torpedo vessel. Cheerful foundered swiftly taking down with her some of her crew/passengers and her 2 tonnes of cargo.
The ship’s inventory showed that it carried a hold of 28lb & 56lb ingots of pure assayed Cornish tin bearing the hot press marks of the smelting houses of:
Treloweth, Truro, Trehellan, Truro, Tamar, Bere Ferres.
Assayed L C Daubuz in Truro

This 28lb pure tin ingot example is hot press stamped Treloweth with deer/lamb & flag to one end and hot pressed L C Daubuz Truro assay to the other.
It is unclear exactly how many of which size were recovered from the wreck in total in the 1990s.
It appears to be 100% in keeping and correct to having been underwater. Found at a March garage clearance assessment having been used by the vendor’s father for weighing down glued veneers in furniture repairs.

I grant you that it is heavy and ideal re weighting purposes...but it is an awesome ingot of extraordinary Cornish Tin Mining importance!
‘Tis never a dull day in Cornwall doing house clearances!!

In this weekend's auction at Beech in Callington. Auctio includes: garden, tools,jewellery, silver, militaria, pipes, die cast, instruments, audio/electricals, furniture, craft etc
auction catalogue link:
https://beechauctions.co.uk/product-category/timed-online-auction/

11/04/2026

QVC doesn't have to put up with assistants like this ......