73 platforms
Art and antiques auctions run on catalogues and condition reports rather than volume. The houses below range from long-established European auction rooms with in-house specialists to platforms that aggregate estate clearances and private collections. Buyer premiums are higher than in industrial auctions, and provenance documentation matters more than in any other category — check it before bidding, especially on anything with an export-licence implication.
Tirana, Albania
Sells Clothing and footwear, Consumer electronics, Passenger cars +4 more
Ankand Albania is the first Albanian platform in this directory and it is a consumer auction marketplace rather than an institutional one — its pitch is that online auctions have now arrived in Albania, safe, transparent and easy to use, for buying or selling from anywhere.
Bremen, Germany
Sells Wine and spirits
Weinauktion.de has been buying and selling wine for more than thirty years and runs its sales as numbered live auctions — auction #529, themed "SIPtember", was closing as this entry was written. It is one of the very few dedicated wine channels in this directory, a category that…
Munich, Germany
Sells Wine and spirits
Munich Wine Company splits its calendar into two tiers that behave differently: Online Wine Auction for the regular sales and Fine Wine Auction for the top end. Its specialisms are the ones that hold value — Premier Cru Burgundy, champagne and rare whisky.
Zurich, Switzerland
Sells Wine and spirits
Steinfels describes itself as Switzerland's oldest wine auction house, and its sales are numbered into the four hundreds. The range is the classic auction spread: Bordeaux crus classés, Burgundy, champagne, spirits and ready-to-drink wines from both the Old and New World.
United Kingdom
Sells Wine and spirits
Wine Auctioneer runs regular wine and spirits sales with a genuinely international buyer base — its own figures are more than sixty thousand lots sold and buyers in over sixty-five countries, served from offices in Scotland, London and the Netherlands. That Dutch office matters…
Belgium
Sells Wine and spirits
Vin.auction runs wine sales on a clear two-stage rhythm that is worth understanding before you plan around it: the auction has a fixed date — a Saturday — but online bidding opens a full week earlier . So the sale is effectively eight days long, with the room simply closing it.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sells Wine and spirits
VinForum is a Danish wine portal — reviews, tastings, regional guides, a weekly newsletter — and VinAuktion is the auction section built into it. That origin shapes the audience: the bidders are readers who already follow the subject, rather than trade buyers.
Zurich, Switzerland
Sells Coins and collectibles, Art and antiques
Corinphila has been running stamp auctions in Zurich since 1919, which makes it one of the oldest continuously trading philatelic houses in Europe. It is the first dedicated stamp auctioneer in this directory — a category that until now existed here only as a line inside general…
Stuttgart, Germany
Sells Coins and collectibles, Gold and precious metals
The Württembergisches Auktionshaus für Postwertzeichen has been holding its own auctions in Stuttgart since 1986 and is one of the established German addresses for philately. Unusually for a stamp house it also runs coins, so a single consignment of a mixed estate does not have…
Düsseldorf, Germany
Sells Coins and collectibles, Art and antiques
Felzmann runs numbered philatelic e-auctions from Düsseldorf — the 46th ran over three days in September 2026 — with the whole catalogue searchable and downloadable as PDFs. The format sits between a timed online sale and a traditional room auction: bidding runs across the days…
Hattingen, Germany
Sells Coins and collectibles, Art and antiques, Gold and precious metals
Nahues runs online auctions across the whole collectors' spectrum rather than a single specialism, with twenty-five years of trading behind it. The category tree is the useful part: German, European, overseas and thematic stamps kept separate, alongside covers and postal…
Leipzig, Germany
Sells Coins and collectibles, Gold and precious metals
Leipziger Münzhandlung und Auktion Heidrun Höhn is a Leipzig coin house running its sales on the AUEX platform, which is the shared infrastructure a good part of the German numismatic trade bids through. Its sales are numbered e-live events — auction 23 covered medals, plaques…
Ireland
Sells Agricultural machinery, Construction machinery and site equipment, Passenger cars +3 more
LSL does something different from most platforms in this directory: it does not run its own sales, it puts existing auction houses online. The product is live video streaming plus online bidding, so a buyer who cannot get to a mart or a saleroom can watch and bid as the…
Stockholm, Sweden
Sells Art and antiques, Office and school furniture, Jewellery and watches +2 more
Auctionet is a shared shop window rather than an auction house: independent salerooms across Europe list their lots here, and you bid in one account instead of registering separately with each. The operator is Auction Network Sweden AB in Stockholm, running online since 2011.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Coins and collectibles +3 more
Catawiki sits between a marketplace and a specialist saleroom: sellers submit objects, in-house experts decide what is accepted and into which sale it goes, and roughly 75,000 lots are offered every week. The curation is the product — it is what separates this from a general…
Paris, France
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Wine and spirits +2 more
Artcurial works out of the Hôtel Marcel Dassault on the rond-point des Champs-Élysées, and its calendar leans heavily on named private collections — the kind of sale where the provenance is the headline. A typical month mixes room sales in Paris with online-only strands.
London, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Classic cars +2 more
Bonhams runs from Montpelier Street in Knightsbridge, and for a European buyer the useful thing to know is how much of the group's activity is outside London: at any point there are sales open for bidding in Denmark and Sweden alongside the British calendar, and the motor car…
London, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Clothing and footwear +1 more
Christie's has been selling since 1766, and its European activity concentrates in three flagship hubs — London, Paris and Geneva — with regional galleries and representatives elsewhere. The calendar is built around named seasons and single-owner collections rather than a steady…
London, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Wine and spirits +1 more
Sotheby's runs roughly 250 auctions a year across more than seventy collecting categories. For a European buyer the map matters more than the headline: the group's auction rooms on this continent are London, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Cologne, Zurich, Beaune and Edinburgh, and Beaune…
Osnabrück, Germany
Sells Coins and collectibles, Gold and precious metals
Künker is one of the larger numismatic auction houses in Europe, working out of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. The business is narrow by design — coins and related material, catalogued in depth — and the calendar splits into traditional floor auctions and a separate online eLive…
London, United Kingdom
Sells Wine and spirits
Whisky Auctioneer is an online-only whisky saleroom running to a monthly cycle, with offices in Scotland, London and the Netherlands. It reports over 810,000 lots sold and more than £300m of whisky traded, with buyers in over a hundred countries. The Dutch operation is the part…
London, United Kingdom
Sells Wine and spirits
Whisky.Auction is an independent online saleroom for rare spirits, operating from a warehouse in Park Royal, west London. Auctions open on published dates and the site counts down to the next one on the front page, which is the simplest way to see whether it is worth registering…
Colombes, France
Sells Wine and spirits
iDealwine runs online wine auctions from the Paris suburbs and describes itself as the world leader in the format. Two things sit side by side on the site: the auctions, and a conventional fixed-price shop — useful, because it shows you what a bottle sells for outside the…
Leyburn, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Coins and collectibles +1 more
Tennants sells from a purpose-built auction centre at Leyburn in North Yorkshire — a saleroom with its own galleries, exhibition space and café, which tells you something about how much of its business is people coming to view in person. The calendar mixes general sales with…
Where this category is deep enough to be worth its own rundown — who runs the sales in that country, what turns up and what to check locally.
