# Leslie \(1851\) Ward - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T10:45:41.549Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 19
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2007-04-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-28
- Median realised price: $75
- Price range: $10 to $1,400

## Market Takeaway
Leslie (1851) Ward shows developing auction liquidity with 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $75. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-08-28.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($75\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $30 and $190.
- 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: 91.7% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 8.3% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $30
- Previous 12 months median: $10
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-28
- Days since latest sale: 174
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Lion and Unicorn: 3 lots
- Capo Auction: 2 lots
- Andrew Jones Auctions: 1 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Copake Auction Inc.: 1 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots
- Holabird Western Americana: 1 lots
- Kaminski Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-28 | Spy \(1851\-1922\) A Quantity of Portraits produced for Vanity Fair and The World including Henry Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins and Gustave Eiffel chromolithographs various sizes \(11\) | Dawsons Auctioneers | £30
2. 2025-05-04 | Spy, Vanity Fair Antique Lithograph China in London | Lion and Unicorn | $25 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-spy-vanity-fair-antique-lithograph-china-in-london-272-c-e52494ba34
3. 2025-02-13 | Spy, Vanity Fair Chromolithograph of Chinese Diplomat | Lion and Unicorn | $10 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-spy-vanity-fair-chromolithograph-of-chinese-diplomat-340-c-0c64a10bf8
4. 2024-11-25 | SPY \(MINI\) CAMERA COLLECTION \[186530\] | Holabird Western Americana | $190
5. 2007-09-27 | \[ Watercolours \] | Cheffins | £1,400
6. 2024-02-29 | Group of four caricature illustrations of gentlemen | Andrew Jones Auctions | $900
7. 2022-09-23 | SPY \(BRITISH 1851\-1922\) \(LESLIE MATTHEW WARD\) FOR VANITY FAIR | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
8. 2018-10-28 | ORIGINAL VANITY FAIR COVER ILLUSTRATION BY SPY | Lion and Unicorn | $190
9. 2016-02-21 | Spy, Vanity Fair Print | Kaminski Auctions | $100
10. 2016-02-13 | Spy Prints | Copake Auction Inc. | $35
11. 2016-01-26 | Set of four spy prints | Sheppards | €75
12. 2015-12-19 | Pair of Spy Prints | Capo Auction | N/A
13. 2015-12-10 | Spy, Sir Thomas Bateson, Bart, Vanity Fair, Lithograph | RoGallery | N/A
14. 2015-11-21 | Pair of Spy Prints | Capo Auction | N/A
15. 2015-07-26 | Spy Print. "Fyvie" 32 x 19cm | Lawsons | A$10
16. 2015-07-09 | Spy \- Chitty's Leader, published Vanity Fair, Janu | Nicholas Mellors Auctioneers | N/A
17. 2014-12-08 | SPY \(VANITY FAIR\); THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS \(19TH CENTURY\), "NERVOUS"; THE PARNELL COMMISSION: SIR HENRY JAMES REPLYING ON THE WHOLE CASE, COLOUR PRINT \(Sight, 13.3" x 8"\); NEWSPRINT \- Ssturday, November 23, 1889 \(Sight, 15.5" x 10.8"\) BOTH SET IN | Waddington's | CA$72
18. 2008-10-16 | Spy, Sir Leslie Ward 1851\-1922\- Portrait of a man | Roseberys | £180
19. 2007-04-02 | Spy \(Sir Leslie Matthew Ward\), \(British, 1851\-1922\), A Group of Six Prints depicting Gentlemen, together with one print by Lib | Hindman | $240

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