# Benjamin Wilkes - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T17:52:52.538Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 6
- Lots with prices: 4
- First auction date: 1998-11-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-18
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $900 to $12,352

## Market Takeaway
Benjamin Wilkes has 6 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($900 to $2,100\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 25% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 25% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $900
- Previous 12 months median: $2,100
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-18
- Days since latest sale: 314
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Crescent City Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Locati LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-18 | Benjamin Wilkes \(?\-1749\): Plate XCVBIII, from English Moths and Butterflies | STAIR | $900
2. 2024-06-23 | Benjamin Wilkes \(died c. 1749\) English Moths and Butterflies | Locati LLC | $2,100
3. 2020-03-13 | Benjamin Wilkes \(?\-1749\): Plate XCVBIII, from English Moths and Butterflies | STAIR | $1,500
4. 2011-09-24 | Benjamin Wilkes, "Moths," 18th c., colored engraving, from his book "The English Moths and Butterflies," 1749, framed, H.\- 13 3/4 in., W.\- 11 in. | Crescent City Auction Gallery | N/A
5. 2002-05-30 | BENJAMIN WILKES | Christie's | $12,352
6. 1998-11-11 | BENJAMIN WILKES \(fl.1740\-1750\) | Christie's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-benjamin-wilkes-fl-1740-1750-207-c-si9zuuviz9

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