Leski Auctions

For anyone who has never attended a decorative arts and collectables auction, Melbourne-based Leski Auctions live sale from 10am on Saturday November 5 and Sunday November 6 is the perfect time to go and have a look to see if there is anything that might appeal as a Christmas present.

Catalogue estimates for the comprehensive range of items on offer (1296 in all) are extremely reasonable and affordable and the 727-729 High Street, Armadale address easy to reach.

Melbourne-based Leski Auctions is rapidly building a massive reputation for memorable two-day Decorative Arts & Collectables sales and its forthcoming auction is no exception with the auction house talking about it as a series of smaller individual categories to make it easier for auction goers to digest.

All up there are 1604 lots with 790 being auctioned on the first day – from 10am Saturday September 10 – and the remainder from the same time the following day at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.

A nostalgic sporting memorabilia auction tinged with sadness is the predominant feeling behind Leski Auctions forthcoming Melbourne sale from 10am Tuesday August 23 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.

One of the major highlights is Shane Warne’s batting helmet he wore during his first Ashes tour of England in 1993 (lot 271).

Warne, who died tragically on March 4 this year from a heart attack aged 52, took 708 Test wickets for Australia during his 15-year career from 1992-2007 as a leg spin bowler.

Michaels Cameras – forced to close last year because of the adverse economic impact COVID-19 has inflicted on Australia – is now selling its comprehensive camera collection through Leski Auctions from 6pm Tuesday August 9 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.

The premises, on the corner of Melbourne CBD's Elizabeth and Lonsdale Streets, housed the world’s largest private camera museum containing more than 3000 items.

Pottery lovers will be delighted to see the late John Stephens collection hit the auction market when Melbourne-based Leski Auctions holds its two-day Australian & Historical sale from 10am Saturday June 25, continuing from 10am Sunday June 26, at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.

Creators are a special breed and the man who invented the Décor brand and brought world-class design, creativity and innovation to Australian homewares, the son of an English adventurer and grandson of a pearl fleet owner on his mother’s side, is no exception.  

This unusual mix produced Great Depression child Brian Middleton Davis who was born in May 1930 in Broome, Western Australia before the family moved to Melbourne where Brian enjoyed a happy childhood designing and building model boats and billycarts at their Brighton home. 

Engineering and collecting appear to have been the two great loves of the late Lester Kingsley, who died in 2020 aged 95, and now his collection of stamps and postcards will be sold as part of Melbourne-based Leski Auctions forthcoming Stamps, Coins and Postal History sale from 12pm Tuesday May 10 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.

Raised in a village in Sussex, England, Lester’s first collection as a boy was John Player cigarette cards featuring aircraft of the Royal Air Force.

No matter what collectors might be looking for this year, they will be sure to find something to their liking at Leski Auctions forthcoming Decorative Arts & Collectables two-day sale from 10am Saturday March 26 when more than 1500 items go under the hammer at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.

Items in session one range from sterling silver to porcelain and ceramics, glass, jewellery, Chinese and Asian art, and antiquities.

Collecting art and wine must have seemed like a luxury to Polish Jew Martin Sachs after the horrors of the World War II German Mauthausen Labour Camp – where he was one of 500 to survive from the 5000 men and boys sent there.

Only 20 at the time he was liberated in May 1945 by United States forces, having already lost his father David at Belzec death camp in 1942 and his mother Hannah at Stutthof concentration camp three years later.

Returning to Poland, in 1948 Martin migrated to Australia where he became a successful builder and developer.

Stamps, coins and postal history are the subject of Melbourne-based Leski Auctions last sale for 2021.

To be held from 10am Thursday December 9 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale, the auction has a larger than usual range of coins, banknotes and medals including an interesting collection of Australian half sovereigns (lots 26-51), featuring Queen Victoria young heads from 1871, and sovereigns (lots 52-89).