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Auction House · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lyon & Turnbull

Auction house with watch and clock sales.

Overview

Lyon & Turnbull is an auction house based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Auction house with watch and clock sales.

As an auction house, its importance to research lies in published sale catalogues, which record descriptions, photographs and provenance of objects as they changed hands.

Past catalogues form a long public record of surviving pieces and are widely used to trace known examples.

Photographs

Lyon & Turnbull — lead image of the Wikipedia article “Lyon & Turnbull”
Lyon & Turnbull — lead image of the Wikipedia article “Lyon & Turnbull” — See file page (Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia), See file page. Wikimedia Commons file page

Photographs are illustrative examples of the type, not necessarily the exact object described. Verify details against the source file page.

Using it for research

  • Catalogue descriptions are written by specialists but are not independent of the sale; treat attributions as the cataloguer's opinion and check condition notes.
  • Results reflect a particular sale on a particular day; this encyclopedia does not report or interpret prices.

Before you visit

  • Pre-sale viewings are commonly open to the public; dates are set per sale.