# Richard Francis Shirley Smith - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T13:35:16.880Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2007-11-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-08
- Median realised price: $257
- Price range: $10 to $317,300

## Market Takeaway
Richard Francis Shirley Smith shows thin auction liquidity with 13 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $257. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-10-02.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($257\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $50 and $17,000.
- 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: 58.3% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 41.7% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $13,970
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-02
- Days since latest sale: 504
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallams: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Bradford's: 1 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Lauren Gallery: 1 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 1 lots
- Mega International Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2015-08-28 | Porcelain ‘Madonna and Child’, Hummel for Goebel, after 1935 | Auctionata Paddle8 AG | N/A
2. 2025-12-08 | 1935, 1936 K. George V, Great Britain One Penny Coins & 1937, 1939, 1940 K. George VI, Great Britain One Penny Coins | Richard L. Edwards Auctioneer | $12 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-1935-1936-k-george-v-great-britain-one-penny-coins-1937-1939-1940-k-george-vi-great-britain-one-penny-coins-34s-c-5e29787f39
3. 2025-04-26 | 1935 \- 1938 Chrysler \- thirteen large, two portfolios, eight small, vg to ex cond | Winter Associates, Inc. | $400
4. 2024-10-02 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $24,000
5. 2024-03-18 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $13,970
6. 2022-08-30 | GRP inc Lledo boxed 67006 1935 Ford 3 Ton | Vectis Auctions Ltd | £50
7. 2022-05-15 | ספרות ותעודות בתחומי ספורט שונים מלפני קום המדינה | The Bidder | $10
8. 2021-02-28 | 1935 \(S\) MINT U.S. SILVER PEACE DOLLAR COIN | Bradford's | $27 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-1935-s-mint-u-s-silver-peace-dollar-coin-1213-c-ce545aab8d
9. 2019-07-04 | Richard Shirley Smith \(b.1935\), | Cheffins | £40
10. 2018-12-15 | 1935, ZHANG DAQIAN BIRD SCROLL PAINTING | Lauren Gallery | $22,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-1935-zhang-daqian-bird-scroll-painting-211-c-6b048b3ae9
11. 2018-12-15 | CHU TEH\-CHUN: FRAMED ABSTRACT PAINTING | Mega International Auction | $17,000
12. 2017-09-05 | 1935, 1935\-D 50C | Bonhams | $257
13. 2014-07-13 | RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH \(British, b.1935\), 'XXIII', | Lots Road Auctions | £350
14. 2013-03-08 | RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH \(b.1935\) Nine Vignettes from | Mallams | £150
15. 2012-07-18 | \[ Prints \] | Mallams | £55
16. 2007-11-16 | 1935 \(white relief\) | Christie's | £317,300

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