Invaluable has seen 18 million visits, up 30 percent.
International gross sales has grown by 45 percent.
Invaluable achieved the most successful Spring ever, with record-breaking months in March, May and June, for both record numbers of buyers and lots sold.
The total number of lots sold on Invaluable climbed 25 percent. Lots sold in eight top categories – fine art, collectibles, Asian art & antiques, furniture, jewelry, decorative arts, wine & spirits, and dolls, bears and toys – are all up this year; in some cases, dramatically. For example, the number of lots of fine art sold rose 45 percent, collectibles 31 percent and Asian art & antiques 43 percent. Subsequently, the number of unique buyers on Invaluable increased 21 percent.
These are the top five lots, in our leading categories, sold by value in the first half of 2018.
Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989)
Dream of Venus
Sold: $260,000
Sotheby’s
May 15, 2018
New York, NY, US
The important stunt cuirass worn by Russell Crowe in the scene depicting the death of the character, ‘Maximus’, in the film, Gladiator
Sold: $95,975
Sotheby’s Australia
April 7, 2018
EVELEIGH, Australia
Pair Chinese Porcelain Covered Boxes
Sold: $100,000
Schwenke Auctioneers
June 6, 2018
Woodbury, CT, US
OROLOGIO ROLEX “PADELLONE” IN ORO ROSA
Sold: $90,254
Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
May 30, 2018
Florence, Italy
Jean Royere (1902 – 1981)
GRAND OEUF (EGG) Lounge Chairs
Sold: $95,000
Palm Beach Modern Auctions
March 3, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL, US
Invaluable launched the Invaluable app on Android, now available at Google Play Store. This expanded the company’s suite of mobile bidding options, which also includes the Invaluable app for iPad and iPhone and mobile-optimized website. Nearly 40 percent of all site traffic is now from mobile devices.
Invaluable secured a U.S. Utility Patent on live auction bidding console technology that will streamline auction house operations – allowing auction houses to promote, market and advertise upcoming catalogs to multiple marketplaces and see all bidding filter through a single clerking console. We envision a far simpler and more efficient future in which auction houses can upload a catalog to Invaluable and list with all marketplaces. The goal: one listing fee, one upload, one approval process, one registration and one clerk.