How it works
Discover, bid, buy, sell
VALÉORINE is a curated online auction platform and knowledge infrastructure. Private owners submit objects for review; admitted professional auction houses may conduct sales under their own identity; and every public sale identifies the house conducting it.
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Discover
Every public sale identifies the house conducting it. VALÉORINE catalogues its own specialist sales; an admitted partner house remains responsible for the catalogue of the sale it conducts under its own name.
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Bid
Register, then bid in a timed online sale. The buyer's fee and any tax are shown in full before a bid is confirmed, so the total payable is never a surprise. You may also leave a confidential maximum and let the platform bid on your behalf by the smallest permitted increment.
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Buy
When a sale closes you receive an invoice covering the hammer price, the buyer's fee, tax where applicable and shipping. Once payment has cleared, the consignor is required to despatch the lot to you directly by an approved tracked service within three business days. You follow the parcel from your account.
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Sell
Submit an object online for review, free of charge and with no obligation. Submission does not guarantee acceptance. Unless specifically arranged, you keep possession of the object throughout; VALÉORINE does not routinely warehouse submitted objects. If it is accepted and sells, the consignor fee is deducted from the hammer price and your proceeds are released once payment, despatch and the dispute window are all satisfied. You are never asked to write the catalogue entry — that is prepared for you.
Who sells here
Two kinds of consignor, one platform
VALÉORINE is the platform. Objects are offered either by private owners or by professional auction houses, and every sale and lot names the party offering it. Both appear in the same catalogues, categories and search results.
Private owners
Attributed as: Private owner — public display name or approved pseudonym.
A private owner submits an object for specialist review. If it is accepted, it is catalogued and presented to bidders through VALÉORINE under the owner's public consignor identity. Legal and identity-verification details are never published.
Submit an objectProfessional auction houses
Attributed as: Auction House — the house's own name.
An admitted professional auction house holds its own organisation account, prepares its own catalogues and publishes its own lots through the platform, retaining its own identity. Admission follows a documented review.
Apply for admission
Objects stay in the owner's hands throughout. VALÉORINE does not routinely take physical custody and does not warehouse submitted objects. Custody moves only when it is specifically arranged in writing beforehand — for example where photography, technical examination or an independent specialist inspection genuinely requires the object in hand. It is never assumed and never a condition of submitting.
Our undertakings
What you can rely on
Fees disclosed before you bid
The buyer's fee is a percentage of the hammer price plus a small fixed fee. The figures shown to you are calculated from the fee scale in force at that moment, and the scale applied to your purchase is recorded permanently against the transaction.
Tracked despatch, or no settlement
Untracked despatch is not permitted. A consignor's proceeds cannot be released until despatch has been evidenced, the dispute window has elapsed and no compliance hold is in place.
A Verified Record of the sale
Each completed transaction can be issued as a VALÉORINE Verified Record with a permanent reference. It attests to the integrity of our sale record — what was sold, when, and under which terms — rather than to the physical object itself.
Permissioned publication, never automatic listing
A private-owner object does not reach a VALÉORINE-conducted sale without review. A partner house may publish only after admission and remains responsible for the catalogue of the sale it conducts. Artificial intelligence may assist research and operations, but it does not by itself create a right to sell, bid, receive funds or make a formal authentication claim.