Historical & Collectable, the only auction house in the world to regularly hold specialist auctions of Commemoratives and Staffordshire Pot Lids, is owned and run by
Andrew Hilton who personally has forty years experience of these popular Collectables.
Commencing his career in 1973 with international auction house Phillips Son & Neale, Andrew Hilton, already
responsible for the auctions of Staffordshire Pot Lids, identified the growing popularity for Collectors Items. He went on to establish, in London's Mayfair, what became by 1980, the world famous Collectors Department. Auctions as diverse as toys and dolls, rock and pop memorabilia, cars and boats proved
hugely popular appealing to a worldwide audience. He was appointed a Director of Phillips in 1983.
In 1991
Andrew Hilton established his own auction house Special
Auction Services and under his leadership the variety and
success of the sales flourished. Driven by his passion
for Commeratives, Staffordshire Pot Lids, Fairings and
Baxter Print, dating back some thirty years, he choose to
concentrate solely on these ever popular subjects setting up
the specialist auction house Historical and Collectable in
2006.
Regarded as the leading authority Historical & Collectable continues to host regular auctions of Commemoratives and Pot Lids. Notable collections sold by Andrew Hilton include those of both the authors of the works of reference on Pot Lids: Abe Ball and more recently Keith Mortimer as well as the collection of the celebrity Leslie Crowther. Andrew Hilton also held the auctions of the Shnayerson Collection of British Political Commemoratives, the Wood and the Colbert Collections of Commemoratives.
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