# John Kay - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T02:17:51.252Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 97
- Lots with prices: 37
- First auction date: 2008-07-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-14
- Median realised price: $60
- Price range: $10 to $625

## Market Takeaway
John Kay shows solid auction liquidity with 97 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $60. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 11 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-14.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($60\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $25 and $130.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 100% (37 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 11
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $12
- Previous 12 months median: $130
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-14
- Days since latest sale: 157
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- East Coast Books: 43 lots
- Dargate Auction Galleries: 10 lots
- Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting: 9 lots
- Fichter Kunsthandel: 7 lots
- ArtLaRosa: 5 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 5 lots
- Claydon Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Mallams: 3 lots
- Copake Auction Inc.: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-14 | JOHN KAY \- The Elder Shall Serve The Younger | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$10 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-kay-the-elder-shall-serve-the-younger-275-c-1dc45f9bfe
2. 2024-03-12 | John Kay \(British, 1742\-1826\), A collection of 61 characters, etchings, largest 26 x 20cm See online for a full list of the plates. | Gorringes | £320 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-kay-british-1742-1826-a-collection-of-61-characters-etchings-largest-26-x-20cm-see-online-for-a-full-list-of-the-plates-203-c-5f642baa77
3. 2024-02-05 | John Kay \(Scottish,1742\-1826\), Four 18th C. political cartoon colored etchings, each framed behind glass, including: "His Majestys Historiographer", 1790, depicting a profile view of a gentleman in 18th C. attire walk... | Winter Associates, Inc. | $125
4. 2025-09-14 | JOHN KAY \- Alexander McKellar, Cock o' the Green | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
5. 2025-03-30 | JOHN KAY \- The Elder Shall Serve The Younger | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-kay-the-elder-shall-serve-the-younger-264-c-cbb49758d1
6. 2025-03-30 | JOHN KAY \- Petticoat Government | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$12
7. 2025-03-10 | JOHN KAY \(Washington/Germany\), THREE PHOTOGRAPHS | O'Gallerie | $45
8. 2025-03-07 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\) \- Pair of humorous prints | ArtLaRosa | N/A
9. 2025-03-07 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\) \- Pair of humorous prints | ArtLaRosa | N/A
10. 2025-03-07 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\) \- Three humorous color prints | ArtLaRosa | N/A
11. 2025-03-07 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\) \- Pair of humorous prints | ArtLaRosa | N/A
12. 2025-03-07 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\) \- Three humorous prints | ArtLaRosa | N/A
13. 2025-02-23 | JOHN KAY \- Alexander McKellar, Cock o' the Green | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
14. 2024-09-22 | JOHN KAY \- The Elder Shall Serve The Younger | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-kay-the-elder-shall-serve-the-younger-273-c-0814b1cae2
15. 2024-09-22 | JOHN KAY \- Petticoat Government | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
16. 2024-09-22 | JOHN KAY \- The Five Alls | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$30
17. 2024-09-22 | JOHN KAY \- The Favourite Cat and De La\-Tour Painter | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$130
18. 2021-10-07 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\), 19th century, Etching, A portrait of William MacDonald Officer to the Highland | Claydon Auctioneers | £10
19. 2021-08-06 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\), 19th century, Etching, A por... | Claydon Auctioneers | £10
20. 2020-09-26 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\), Advocates, 12 profiles of English lawyers with wig, 1810, Etching | Fichter Kunsthandel | N/A
21. 2020-09-26 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\), James Mc Kean in the dock in Edinburgh, 1796, Etching | Fichter Kunsthandel | N/A
22. 2020-09-26 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\), Thomas White, midshipman in the dock, 1814, Etching and Aquatint | Fichter Kunsthandel | N/A
23. 2020-09-26 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\), Advocates, 12 profiles of English lawyers without wig, 1811, Etching | Fichter Kunsthandel | N/A
24. 2020-09-26 | John Kay \(1742\-1826\), Two English prosecutors in robes \(Archibald Campbell Colquhuon and Alexander Maconochie\), 1813, Etching | Fichter Kunsthandel | N/A

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