At Webb’s our Single Owner Collections cover a range of categories including Fine New Zealand Art, Chinese & Asian Art, Collectors’ Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia, Decorative Arts, Fine Jewels & Watches. Our experience, expertise and success in this field is unrivalled. 

Our most recent single-owner auction was the Peter Downey Collection. Peter Downey is one of New Zealand’s most respected authorities in decorative arts, antiques, and jewellery. With over half a century of experience, starting in antique shops as boy, he went on to help establish Webb’s auction house in the 1970s and afterwards worked with Michael Hill for nearly two decades, establishing their antique jewellery division. As you would expect, his personal collection is brimming with wonders, including ancient fossils, Cloisonné pottery, historic weapons, Victorian silverware, and Art Deco bronzes.

Webb’s auctioned the phenomenal art collection of Warwick & Kitty Brown over two evenings, 17 and 18 May 2017. With spirited bidding on both nights and an exceptional overall sell-through rate of 141% by value, total sales were in excess of $3 million. Many lots achieved 200% of their estimates, with buyers placing a value on provenance and wanting to own a piece of New Zealand art history. 

The auction of The Roy Savage Collection of Classic Cars held in Paraparaumu on 4 December 2016 achieved nearly NZ$1.5 million and resulted in 138% sold by value proving Webb’s specialty in the sale of single-owner collections. Other single-owner collections held in 2016 included The Sierd Bouma Collection, The Collection of Michael Woolf and A Private Collection of Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts.