Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers
About us
Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers is Metropolitan Washington DC's premier auction house; estate catalogue auctions of fine art and antiques are held approximately five times each year. The company is the successor firm to Washington's C.G. Sloan & Co., which was established in 1853. Sloans & Kenyon recently has sold property at auction from the National Press Club, U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Phillips Collection, Blair House Restoration Fund, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Italian Embassy, Victorian Society in America, Tudor Place, CarrAmerica Realty Corporation, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., Washington Teachers’ Union, Universalist National Memorial Church, and Georgetown Presbyterian Church (all Washington DC); Darnall's Chance Museum, Upper Marlboro MD; the United Negro College Fund; James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, Fredericksburg, VA; Auburn Farm, Thurmont MD; "Oakland," Petersville, MD; The Wayside Inn, Middletown, VA; the collections of actress Jane Withers, Ambassador Richard W. Carlson, Alice Pike Barney, Count Rodolfo Giusti de Marle, Bali, Indonesia; Ambassador William Itoh, Senator Edward William Brooke (R- Massachusetts) and CNN Anchor David Ensor; and the estates of celebrity psychic Jeane Dixon, Baroness Garnet Von Stackelberg, Countess Adelaide D'Eudeville, Esmeralda Alcoforado, Gladys Ponton de Arce Bendetsen, David Alvey Reed, and painter Pierce Rice (all Washington DC); Benjamin Franklin Kahn, Chevy Chase, MD; General Roland H. delMar, Petersville, MD; Mrs. E. Delong Bowman, Vantage Point Farm, Middleburg, VA; E. Brooke Lee, Jr., Chevy Chase, MD; Samuel M. Hyatt, London, Berlin, and Washington DC; Sophia and Leonidas Arvanitidis, Monaco; and Kenkichi Yokohama, Buenos Aries, Argentina; Sir Sidney Barton, British Ambassador to Peking.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Complimentary appraisal day every Tuesday from 11 am to 1 pm Appraisal services for insurance and estates purposes Estate catalogue auctions of fine art and antiques are held five times a year.
Amenities
Warranties
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- American Express
- Check
- Visa
- Discover
- MasterCard
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S&K seems unable to fulfill their commitment to have all lots (not just 60%) numbered and catalogued, described, photographed and put on the web prior to and during the preview days, or even by the beginning of auctions. Few people showed up at the auction today, and hammer prices were low. Why bid on something that you can't even positively ID, because they couldn't provide a description nor item number in person at the preview, nor a photo of the item online up through the auction??? Without a number to associate with the item, is one supposed to sit there for two days waiting for it to come up?
I simply became frustrated at not being able to locate by web or catalog the numbers of the item I saw at preview, asked about, and showed up to bid on. With1000 items to hammer over two days, and everything now piled up behind black lacquer screens so you can't even find the piece to show to staff, I became bored and left. Additionally, the lack of photos does not speak well for their ability to maintain the internet side of the auction.
I previously thought of consigning the better half of my excess to them, but now think I would do as well using one of the local auction barns.
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