# Samuel Metford - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-02T02:48:59.554Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 37
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 2001-10-30
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-08
- Median realised price: $420
- Price range: $30 to $4,972

## Market Takeaway
Samuel Metford has 37 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $420. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($420\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($225 to $950\) 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: 77.8% (21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 22.2% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $225
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-08
- Days since latest sale: 113
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 13 lots
- Amelia Jeffers: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 2 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- Lacy Scott & Knight: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Elstob Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-01-08 | SAMUEL METFORD \(ENGLISH/AMERICAN 1810\-1890\) CUT PAPER, GOUACHE, AND WATERCOLOR SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT OF A LADY. | Amelia Jeffers | $225 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-samuel-metford-english-american-1810-1890-cut-paper-gouache-and-watercolor-silhouette-portrait-of-a-lady-266-c-3c5f15da80
2. 2025-11-28 | SAMUEL METFORD \(BRITISH/AMERICAN 1810\-1890\) LARGE CUT PAPER AND WATERCOLOR SILHOUETTE OF FRANCIS MCKENZIE FAMILY. | Amelia Jeffers | $1,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-samuel-metford-british-american-1810-1890-large-cut-paper-and-watercolor-silhouette-of-francis-mckenzie-family-301-c-a4913ccc71
3. 2025-09-13 | Samuel Metford \(1810\-1896\) \- Interior silhouette portrait group of a seated quaker couple Mr & Mrs Colack\(?\), watercolour heightened with white, signed lower left, 24 x 28cm | Lacy Scott & Knight | £80
4. 2025-03-21 | SAMUEL METFORD \(ENGLISH, 1810\-1896\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $300
5. 2024-09-18 | Samuel Metford \(British, 1810\-1896\) | Cheffins | N/A
6. 2024-06-26 | Samuel Metford \(British, 1810\-1896\) | Cheffins | £800
7. 2023-11-29 | Samuel Metford \(1810\-1896\), two silhouettes of female figures, one standing, one seated, heightened in white a | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £170
8. 2023-02-10 | Samuel Metford, watercolor family silhouette | Pook & Pook Inc. | $460
9. 2022-11-30 | SAMUEL METFORD \(1810\-1896\) PORTRAIT SILHOUETTES OF THE REVD JOSEPH BAYNES AND HIS WIFE ANA | Elstob Auctioneers | £850
10. 2019-11-16 | SAMUEL METFORD \(BRITISH / AMERICAN, 1810\-1896\) CUT\-AND\-PASTED CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA FAMILY GROUP SILHOUETTE | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $4,972
11. 2019-04-17 | SAMUEL METFORD \(AMERICAN, 1810\-1896\) SILHOUETTE, 1855 Mixed media: 8 x 5 in. \(sight\) | Potomack Company | $325
12. 2018-12-02 | 19th c. full\-length silhouette | Willis Henry Auctions Inc. | N/A
13. 2018-06-18 | Samuel Metford \(1810\-1890\), Silhouette of a seated Lady, 23 x 17cm, framed and glazed | Piers Motley Auctions | £30
14. 2016-10-29 | SAMUEL METFORD \(1810\-1896\): SILHOUETTE FAMILY CONVERSATION GROUP AND ANOTHER GROUP | STAIR | $1,600
15. 2015-12-10 | Samuel Metford \(1810\-1896\) Full length silhouettes of a lady and gentleman, 9.75 x 6.75in. | Gorringes | £140
16. 2015-10-06 | Samuel Metford \[1810\-1896\]\- A silhouette of a nava | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | N/A
17. 2015-07-10 | Samuel Metford \(1810\-1890\) Silhouettes Charleston | John McInnis Auctioneers | $1,000
18. 2014-08-15 | Samuel Metford \(1810\-1896\): Pair of Silhouettes: A Lady with Book Turned to the Right and A Gentleman with Book Turned to the Left | STAIR | $750
19. 2012-06-13 | Samuel Metford \(British, 1810\-1896\) | Bonhams | £250
20. 2012-03-22 | Samuel Metford \(1810\-1896\) \- silhouette portrait of the Lloyd family | Gorringes | £950
21. 2012-03-14 | Samuel Metford \(British, 1810\-1896\) A silhouette of a Lady, profile to the left, holding a book; together with two silhouettes of Gentlemen, profile to the right, English School \(3\) | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2012-03-14 | Samuel Metford \(British, 1810\-1896\) A silhouette of a Naval Officer, full\-length, profile to the left, wearing uniform, he holds his cocked hat, his sword by his side | Bonhams | £238
23. 2012-02-14 | Samuel Metford \(British 1810\-1896\), facsimile silhouette of kaufman family members, charleston, sc. dated 1838, Signed, dated and inscr | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
24. 2011-11-23 | Samuel Metford \(British, 1810\-1896\) A silhouette of a Naval Officer, full\-length, profile to the left, wearing uniform, he holds his cocked hat, his sword by his side | Bonhams | N/A

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