Category: Castle Auctions News

Limassol Coeur de Lion, Lions Club

Saturday 12th December at a packed auction Saleroom at Castle Auctions in Limassol the room held it’s collective breath at 12 o’clock for lot 200, the signed Wayne Rooney shirt being auctioned to raise funds for our Lions Club.

There was a brief pause as auction staff assembled near the rostrum to handle live telephone bids to the mix of bidders in the room and those who had left bids with the auctioneer, Duncan Wills as book bids.

The shirt had a start price of €100 and had attracted a lot of interest in the preceding weeks with an island wide marketing campaign in English, Greek and Russian!

The book bids were worked out and the bidding began in the room at €480. Then between the telephone bidders and the customers in the room the price rose to €800 before 3 live bidders were left. They fought it out to €920 when the third bidder had enough and dropped out leaving 2 bidders to battle it out.

The price kept rising, both bidders fiercely determined until it reached €1200! There was a pause for breath, and then a last rally saw the price reach €1350!

The winner of the shirt was a wonderful lady called Tereza who had bought the shirt as a present for a life long friend and massive fan of Manchester United. She was delighted to have won the shirt and to have helped ‘such a good charitable organisation’.

President of the Coeur de Lion, Lions Club, John Young, pictured with Tereza, was there to witness the excitement and to thank Tereza in person for her kindness and generosity in bidding so much.

The club would like to thank everyone who took part and bid on the shirt and helped to create such an exciting auction for good causes. 100% of the proceeds will go to the club which is an entirely voluntary organisation.

 

 

Featured in our Saturday 12th December 2015 auction, we will be selling this authentic Wayne Rooney Signed No. 10 Manchester United Shirt, professionally framed and the winning bidder will also receive a personalised letter from Manchester United Football Club!

Kindly donated to the Limassol ‘Coeur De Lion’ Lions International Club where all the sale proceeds will be going to charity. Castle Auctions will be waiving all commission so the maximum amount goes to a good cause.

 

Castle Auctions just got Better! Stronger! Faster! Bigger!

Starting in October 2015, the Limassol auction’s are split into 2 (two) simultaneous sales at the same time.

Saleroom ‘A’ will start at 11am, auctioning Lots 1 – 999 and normally includes: Furniture, Antiques, Audio & Visual, Jewellery, Art, Household Accessories, Collectables, Militaria, Stamps, Coins etc…

Saleroom ‘B’ will start at 11.30am, auctioning Lots 1,000 & over and normally includes: Tools, Commercial, Catering, Office Furniture, Cars, Motorbikes, Bicycles, Garden & Patio, Sporting Goods, etc…

HALF THE TIME, DOUBLE THE FUN!

Please see the full auction catalogue for every sale here on our website, with photos, description and staring prices for every Lot.

See you there & Happy Bidding!

Castle Auctions are proud to sponsor SSAFA’s 4BBB Golf Day at the Episkopi Joint Services Golf Club on Sat 17th October 2015.

Playing on the Castle Auctions team are Trevor Jones (Director of Castle Auctions) and Willie El Fakir (Friend and regular customer of the auction).

Sponsors of the 17th hole at the scenic 18 hole golf course within the Episkopi Garrison.

Learn more about SSAFA and their on-going support for our forces and their families here: www.ssafa-cyprus.org.

 

We currently have a job vacancy in our Limassol saleroom – learn more on our Job Vacancies page…

We are really pleased to announce we have just updated our website with a more comprehensive list of items available as ‘Buy Now’ including any un-sold from each auction…

Take a look here: http://www.castle-auctions.com/shop-buy-now-product/, many people will be pleased to see we have larger photos, together with multiple images for certain items.

Even better! Now you can now filter the results to see those in our Limassol or Nicosia salerooms and narrow down to different categories of interest using the left hand menus.

Items are clearly marked ‘Bidding Starts’ or ‘Buy Now’ to indicate if you can purchase straight away, or must bid in forthcoming auction (either in person, or using our Book Bid service).

Please note, availability changes on a daily basis and we will try to keep the website as up to date as possible, you are welcome to check or ask any questions – give us a call stating the ID number, or use the contact form on any item page.

We have more great ideas in development, so watch this space and register for updates from Castle Auctions.

We are pleased to be sponsoring the Paphos Classic Vehicle Club’s 2nd Annual Paphos Harbour Classic Vehicle Display on Sunday 17th May 2015.

Come along to see a number of great classic cars on show, chat to the owners and cast your votes for the best vehicle in each group.

Entrance is FREE and the event runs from 10am to 2pm.

For more information you can visit their website or contact the organisers: http://www.paphoscvc.com.

We hope to see you there where you’ll have the opportunity to meet ‘Stanley’ our own 1957 Austin A35!

We have some excellent Thai / Japanese Style statues and ornaments in our next auction (Sat 18th April), mostly solid wood, ornately carved and would make excellent decoration for your home or business…

Teak panels / screens, large and small Buddha’s, pair of beautiful 1.8m dragon carvings, 2.2m temple style doors, wall hangings / table tops, light fittings to mention a few.

See our website gallery for more images, or the full auction catalogue Wednesday!

Castle Auctions opening hours over the Easter period in Cyprus;

LIMASSOL SALEROOM;

Tues 7th April 2015 – open as normal, 9am – 5pm.
Wed 8th April 2015 – CLOSED.
Thurs 9th April 2015 – open as normal, 9am – 5pm.
Fri 10th April 2015 – CLOSED
Sat 11th April – open as normal, 9am – 5pm.
Sun 12th April – CLOSED
Mon 13th April – CLOSED
Tues 14th April (public holiday) – open, 9am – 5pm.
Wed 15th April – CLOSED
Thurs 16th & Friday 17th April – viewing days for next auction…

NICOSIA SALEROOM;

Tues 7th April 2015 – open, 9am – 5pm.
Wed 8th April 2015 – CLOSED
Thurs 9th April 2015 – CLOSED
Fri 10th April 2015 – CLOSED
Sat 11th April – CLOSED
Sun 12th April – CLOSED
Mon 13th April – CLOSED
Tues 14th April (public holiday) – open, 9am – 5pm.
Wed 15th April – CLOSED
Thurs 16th & Friday 17th April – open, 9am – 5pm.

We hope you have an enjoyable extended weekend and great Easter!

Rare Easter Egg for Auction Tomorrow (Sat 4th April 2015) for Charity…

We are excited to be selling a unique Chocolate Easter Egg, certainly like no other… decorated in 24ct Gold Leaf and containing a full bottle of Champaign!

Approximately 40cm high, containing 1.5kg of 100% Peruvian Dark Chocolate and housing a full size bottle of Champaign and coloured sugar decoration inside, this special Easter Egg was created and kindly donated by the Chocolate Workshop in Platres (http://www.cypruschocolate.com), where all the sale proceeds will go to Charity.

Offered for sale with no reserve, but a very worthy cause in mind, so please bid generously and we hope you thoroughly enjoy the Chocolate Egg and its contents!