About us

Our strong client base locally, nationally and internationally, built up over decades of trading, contributes to Batemans standing as a trusted and highly reputable regional Auctioneers and Valuers, and helps us consistently perform above and beyond any local competition.

Using the latest technology in our modern saleroom on Ryhall Road in Stamford, with decades of experience in our highly skilled and hard working team, and by promoting each and every lot to maximum effect we can offer vendors an outstanding selling service and provide buyers an exciting array of carefully selected items across a vast range of collecting areas.

Run by Greg Bateman at the head of a passionate, vastly knowledgeable and committed team, Batemans of Stamford can offer vendors and buyers an unrivalled service – please get in touch to see how we can help. Founded by fine art and antiques dealer Ron Bateman with his daughter Kate Bateman in the centre of Stamford on Broad Street, auctions in the early days took place in the Corn Exchange theatre.

David Palmer joined as a new principal Auctioneer in 2005 and with his appropriately theatrical selling style bidders crowded to be part of the action and excitement that exemplifies auction days at Batemans.

In 2006 a landmark single owner sale for Lucille Van Geest from the finest house on Tinwell Road in Stamford turned Batemans into a regional auctioneering force and set the stage for continued growth. Autumn 2008 saw an overdue move to permanent premises on Ryhall Road in Stamford which Batemans still occupies today. With a hard working and very friendly staff, well established experience, and coinciding with the boom in the Chinese market the business has flourished.

Notable sales include the 22ct gold Cadbury’s Conundrum egg sold TWICE, most recently for £37,200 (inc B.P); the outstanding collection of Chinese ivories and porcelain from the collection of Hugh Winckworth Winstanley which included a Chinese carved ivory half-tusk which sold for £15,500 (inc B.P); the collection of Major-General Arthur Hay DSO OBE which included a pair of Cartier Art Deco diamond earclips which sold for £32,400 (inc B.P); a Chinese jade dish which sold for £13,200 (inc B.P) and a £40,000 collection of fine Russian silver and cloisonne enamel wares from which a tankard by Pavel Ovchinnikov of Moscow sold for £18,880 (inc B.P).

Batemans were also appointed to sell the contents from Sacrewell Farmhouse, erstwhile home of William Scott Abbott, Fulbeck Hall, Clipsham Hall, and items from the Estate of the Late Carlo Curley – concert organist and self-proclaimed ‘Pavarotti of the organ’… and have received memorable consignments from London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Bath, Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leeds, Derby, Nottingham, and Stoke-on-Trent, as well as internationally – France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Denmark, America, Australia, and China!