Experience

You have considerable retail or re-commerce experience, maybe working in an antiques shop, where you could have started as a junior salesroom assistant or in an admin position, then, over the years, gathered experience in jewellery and silverware.

Your experience covers sales and auction administration, like recording sales. You may also have been involved in photoshoots and setting up displays.

Knowledge

As a specialist auctioneer, you have your finger on the pulse of previous and current jewellery and silverware salesroom figures and understand sales trends and market demands.

Discreet and professional, you have a refined personal and specific network for sourcing and promoting items for sale.

You have a thorough understanding of materials and are able to competently value items for sale.

Skills

Qualification Requirements

Generally, you need GCSEs and A level to become a salesroom assistant. From there, you gain experience and work up to the position of auctioneer.

Established and well-known auction houses require a degree in jewellery or silversmithing with additional qualifications, like gemmology or diamond grading, for valuation.

Sotheby’s and Christie’s run their own post-graduate courses and entry schemes. 

Once in this field, it is possible to work towards Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) membership.

Role also Called

Specialist silverware, jewellery auctioneer, Senior specialist silverware, jewellery auctioneer