Clars Auction Gallery

From its location in North Oakland, California, USA, Clars Auction Gallery hosts auctions of jewellery, decorative objects and fine art.

Clars Auction Gallery began in 1948 when Harvey Clar started conducting industrial auctions. He sold the business to Redge Martin in 1996.

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Moorcroft with a $27,000 silver lining

 14 October 2013

Estimated to sell for $800-1200, this loving cup combining the talents of William Moorcroft and the San Francisco jewellers Shreve & Co. sold for $27,000 (£17,650) at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, California.

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Tiffany rarities show designer’s versatility

 27 February 2012

THE two Tiffany works of art that gave strong performances within days of each other in recent US sales were not the usual lamps, glassware or table silver.

Famous Five are one of the surprises of 1000

 11 June 2003

AT OVER 1000 lots, the May 22 sale held by Greenslade Taylor Hunt of Taunton was certainly one of the bigger sales of that week, but only a single lot topped the £1000 mark – a disbound, incomplete and defective English Bible. Apparently a 1540 reissue in smaller format of the Great Bible that Thomas Cromwell ordered to be placed in the country’s churches so that “parishioners may moste commodiously resorte to the same”, it was bid up to £1250.

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