What kind of auction house is VALÉORINE?
Buying at Auction · Revised 3 August 2026
VALÉORINE is an online auction house headquartered in London, specialising in five fields: manuscripts, rare books, autographs, photography and works on paper. Every auction is conducted exclusively online. We are not a marketplace and we keep no public auction room. Every lot offered has been submitted online, accepted, shipped to our London offices and examined in hand before it appears in a sale, with an independent specialist consulted where the subject requires it.
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