About Lot & Gavel

Buying pre-owned luxury online usually means trusting a few photographs and a stranger’s description. Authentication, when it happens at all, often happens after you’ve paid. And every time a piece changes hands, whatever was known about it (where it came from, what has been repaired, who owned it) tends to disappear.

Lot & Gavel works the other way round. We inspect every item before it’s listed, grade its condition plainly, and keep a written record of what we know about it. That record ships with the piece and stays on file with us, so the next buyer starts with everything you knew.

The name comes from the auction room. The lot is the piece itself, and the gavel marks the moment it passes to its next owner. Every lot we sell also carries a ledger entry, the record that goes with it.