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Auctions for the things collectors actually collect
Timed online sales run from Auckland and open to bidders anywhere in the world: premium trading cards, modern and contemporary art, sculpture, vinyl, consoles and the collectibles that general auction houses do not understand. Every lot is researched and catalogued to the standard in our sample catalogue, and every fee is printed before you bid or consign.
New Zealand has good auction houses for the domestic art canon and a marketplace for everything else. Very few treat a 1st Edition Charizard, a first pressing, a sealed console or a mid-career sculptor with the same research, photography and honesty a painting gets. That is the gap this is built for.
The first three sales
Each sale is a timed online auction closing lot by lot on a set evening, New Zealand time, with an in-person preview in Auckland the week before. Dates are announced to the updates list first.
Premium Trading Cards
Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and sports cards. Graded headline cards, vintage sealed product, and complete sets with real condition. Cards ship worldwide, so this sale is built for international bidders from the start.
Modern & Contemporary Art and Sculpture
New Zealand and international work from the twentieth century to now: paintings, works on paper, editions, photography and sculpture, with a preview you can walk through. Bidding is open worldwide; shipping and framing advice is arranged lot by lot.
Vinyl, Consoles & Collectibles
First pressings and rare records, sealed and boxed consoles from the PlayStation era back to the beginning, comics, toys and pop culture pieces with provenance. The things that usually go for a tenth of their value at a garage sale.
Eight categories, one standard
Every lot in every category gets the same treatment: identified properly, condition stated in plain words, comparable sales cited, photographed front and back, and described by someone who collects the same things.
Trading Cards
Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and sports cards, raw and graded.
Sports Memorabilia
Match-worn and signed jerseys, balls, programmes and photographs with provenance.
Modern & Contemporary Art
Paintings, works on paper, editions and photography from the twentieth century to now.
Classical & Historical Art
Earlier paintings, prints and drawings, colonial and maritime subjects, and works with a documented history.
Sculpture & Design
Sculpture, ceramics, studio glass and design objects, from tabletop to outdoor scale.
Vinyl & Music
First pressings, rare and withdrawn releases, test pressings, signed records and collections.
Video Games & Consoles
Sealed and boxed consoles, graded and sealed games, prototypes, and complete collections.
Comics, Toys & Pop Culture
Key-issue comics, vintage toys in original packaging, film and music memorabilia.
How bidding works
Timed online auctions, so nobody has to be in a room at the right moment. You set the most you are willing to pay and the system bids for you, one increment at a time, only as far as it needs to.
Register
Bidder registration opens with the first sale: name, email and a card on file for verification. It is free and takes two minutes. Until then, join the updates list below to hear the date first.
Preview
Every lot has full photography, a condition statement and a research entry online. Sales with art and sculpture also have an in-person preview in Auckland the week before.
Set your maximum
Enter the most you would pay. Your bid only rises when someone else bids against you, and never past your limit.
Extended bidding
Any bid in the final fifteen minutes adds fifteen minutes to that lot. Nobody wins by clicking in the last second. The lot closes when the bidding actually stops.
Pay and collect
Invoice on the night, payment by card or bank transfer, then collection in Auckland or insured, tracked shipping worldwide.
Watch the clock reset
This is the rule that protects you from last-second sniping. Place a bid on the example lot while the clock is inside its final window and the close moves back. The lot only ends when fifteen real minutes pass without a bid.
The demo runs at thirty times speed: fifteen minutes is shown as thirty seconds. The figures are illustrative.
Consigning with us
You deal with one person from the first photo to the final payment. No department, and no surprise line on the statement.
Send photos
Use the form below, WhatsApp or email. Front, back, any marks or labels, and a shot of the whole collection if there is one. Do not sort or clean anything first.
Honest first read
Within one working day we tell you whether it belongs in a sale, roughly where it might land, and if it would do better sold privately or not at all. No charge.
Terms in writing
Reserve, estimate, commission and which sale, all on one page you sign before anything is photographed or listed.
We do the work
Research, photography, condition report and catalogue entry, grading submission where it pays, and the preview. Your item is stored securely in our care, and insurance for the sale period is agreed with you in writing as part of the terms.
Paid when it clears
A statement showing the hammer price, the agreed commission and your net, paid by bank transfer once the buyer's funds have cleared. If a lot does not sell, we tell you what to do next.
Fees, in the open
The buyer's premium and the seller's commission schedule will be published on this page before the first sale. There is no photography fee, no cataloguing fee, no insurance surcharge and no unsold-lot charge. Where a lot needs grading or shipping, that cost is agreed with you in writing before it is incurred. If a cost is not on this page or in your signed terms, you do not pay it.
Reserves and estimates
Every reserve is agreed with you in writing and never raised without your say-so. Estimates are built from comparable sales, the same way our valuations are, and we will show you the evidence behind them. We will also tell you when we think a private sale or a direct purchase would serve you better than an auction.
What is different about this one
The catalogue is the product
A trading card or a record gets the same research entry as a painting: identification, condition, provenance and comparable sales. You can see the standard now in the sample catalogue.
Fees you can read
Two published numbers and nothing else. Auction houses that add photography, insurance and admin lines to the settlement are charging for the parts of the job that are the job.
Built for what ships
Cards, records, consoles and small collectibles sell to the whole world from Auckland. Art and sculpture sell to Australasia with a real preview. The sale format follows the object, not the other way round.
One name on every lot
Luke Heather catalogues, photographs and answers for every lot personally. Read about the training behind that, exactly as it stands, on the homepage.
Registration under the Auctioneers Act 2013, published conditions of sale and our anti-money-laundering procedures will all be in place and linked from this page before the first lot is offered. Until then, nothing here is an offer to sell.
Need to sell before then?
Private sale and brokerage
We already sell art and collectibles directly to buyers we know, on a commission agreed in writing, with no auction house in the middle. If timing matters, this is the faster route. How selling works →
Direct purchase of cards
For trading card collections we can make an offer ourselves, itemised per card so you can compare it with anyone else's. We say plainly when we are wearing a buyer's hat. Trading cards in depth →
Questions before the first sale
When is the first auction?
Can I bid from outside New Zealand?
What does it cost to sell?
What does it cost to buy?
How do you stop shill bidding?
How are cards and collectibles authenticated?
What happens if my lot does not sell?
Is this a licensed auction house?
Be there for sale 001
Sign up for updates, tell us what you have to sell, or both. People on the updates list hear the date first and get the catalogue before it is public.
Get auction updates
Free. Bidder registration, with card verification, opens with the first sale.
Consign a lot
Tell us what you have. We reply within one working day with an honest first read.
Prefer to talk? luke@heatherandco.co.nz · WhatsApp · 027 489 7801