LONDON and NEW YORK, June 28, 2004 — Industry leaders Invaluable and Go Antiques, join forces to offer the best online information resource for fine art, antiques and collectables.
Invaluable and Go Antiques are pleased to confirm an exciting joint venture which combines, respectively, the resources of the world’s largest aggregator of auction data on art, antiques and collectables with the most extensive online dealer inventory.
It will enable Invaluable to market catalogues from over 2,000 salerooms in 25 countries to the Go Antiques audience. Millions of buyers already flock to the Go site each month, via inter alia, distribution deals with AOL, Yahoo! and CompuServe, to view the changing stock from some 1,500 dealers and galleries. Invaluable receives catalogues from every auctioneer you’ve ever heard of and hundreds more you haven’t. The Invaluable clientele, typically embracing collectors, dealers, museums and heritage bodies, obtains unrivalled access to lot descriptions that meet its search criteria. Invaluable processes around 10,000 catalogues per annum from brick and mortar salerooms and these are added to its archive of past lots, now exceeding 30,000,000, including over 7,000,000 realized prices.
The auction alert service from Invaluable has, historically, been the preserve of the cognoscenti who chose not to publicize their subscriptions and thus avoid competition. However, the secret is now out! Most people are not aware of the breadth of the market and the plethora of specialist auctioneers that have emerged in recent times. Aside from many mainstream operators, Invaluable also processes lot information from salerooms dedicated, for example, to militaria, art deco, sporting memorabilia, musical instruments and piscatorial items.
Both companies have a very strong base in the UK and US but their tentacles spread far and wide. Go features stock from an international dealer network while auction house contributors to Invaluable range from France to New Zealand and Israel to Hungary, with lots spanning the entire collecting spectrum from Old Masters to old bus tickets. Furthermore, both organizations actively promote due diligence whereby all items are screened against a database of stolen objects and those of dubious provenance, giving both buyers and sellers peace of mind.
About Invaluable
Founded in London in 1989, Invaluable was the first company to provide impartial and transparent information on art, antiques and collectables to be sold at auction. It continues to alert subscribers of items of relevance, however vague or specific their search criteria. This service is augmented by an illustrated archive of items sold across all categories. Additionally, Invaluable possesses the most comprehensive electronic search tool to help identify stolen property and has facilitated the recovery of over 4,000 objects worth over 75,000,000 pounds sterling ($125,000,000) in the last decade.
CONTACT
Should you require any further information or would like to arrange an interview, please don’t hesitate to contact Howard Lewis, Chairman.
Tel (44) 207 487 3401
Fax (44) 207 487 4211
Cell (44) 7870 597664
http://www.invaluable.com
