# James Aitken - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T02:06:41.911Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2005-06-29
- Latest auction date: 2024-10-25
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $70 to $1,320

## Market Takeaway
James Aitken has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($110 to $480\) 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: 92.9% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 7.1% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $250
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-25
- Days since latest sale: 550
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Shapes Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots
- Brightwells: 1 lots
- Charles Miller Ltd: 1 lots
- Hutchinson Scott Limited: 1 lots
- King Galleries: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-10-25 | James Aitken \(SC 1837\-1906\) | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $250
2. 2024-07-10 | JAMES AITKEN \(1854\-1935\). LARGE WATERCOLOUR | Hutchinson Scott Limited | N/A
3. 2023-04-29 | James Aitken \(1846\-1897\) oil on canvas painting landscape | King Galleries | $650
4. 2015-07-08 | JAMES AITKEN \(Exh. 1884\-1933\) A coastal headland, Isle of M | Mallams | £110
5. 2015-05-12 | JAMES AITKEN \(BRITISH, FL.1880\-1935\) Manx fishing boats Signed ' | Charles Miller Ltd | N/A
6. 2014-11-26 | James Aitken \(act. 1880 \- 1935\), watercolour \- sea | Reeman Dansie | N/A
7. 2014-03-06 | JAMES AITKEN \(1854\-1935\); watercolour ''Point of | Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers | £180
8. 2012-10-06 | James Aitken \(1846\-1897\): Sheep on the Scottish Moors | STAIR | $150
9. 2011-01-13 | James Aitken \(fl. 1880 \- 1935\) Perthshire River | Shapes Auctioneers & Valuers | £70
10. 2010-05-27 | JAMES AITKEN \(SCOTTISH 1880\-1935\) TENDING THE SHEEP 31cm x 56cm \(13in x 22in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
11. 2010-05-27 | JAMES AITKEN \(SCOTTISH 1880\-1935\) A RIVERSIDE IN THE PERTHSHIRE HIGHLANDS 33cm x 49cm \(13in x 19.25in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
12. 2010-02-06 | James Aitken \(fl 1880 \- 1935\) Scene in Perthshire | Shapes Auctioneers & Valuers | £80
13. 2009-11-25 | James Aitken \(British, 1854\-1935\) The Mersey Channel | Bonhams | N/A
14. 2009-06-17 | James Aitken \(British, 1854\-1935\) Fishing boats off the Isle of Man | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2009-04-04 | James Aitken \(fl1880\-1935\) The Clyde at Dumbarton | Shapes Auctioneers & Valuers | £100
16. 2008-06-18 | JAMES AITKEN \(1854\-1935\) Seascape with distant | Brightwells | £300
17. 2007-08-20 | Untitled lot | Bonhams | £312
18. 2007-06-13 | Untitled lot | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2006-05-12 | James Aitken \(1846\-1897\) | Christie's | £1,320
20. 2005-10-11 | James Aitken \(British, fl.1880\-1935\) | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2005-06-29 | James Aitken \(fl.c.1880\-1935\) | Christie's | £720
22. 2005-06-29 | James Aitken \(fl.c.1880\-1935\) | Christie's | £360
23. 2005-06-29 | James Aitken \(fl.c.1880\-1935\) | Christie's | £480

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