# Sydney Woodward Smith - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T04:05:40.022Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 10
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2003-09-12
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-26
- Median realised price: $270
- Price range: $90 to $5,000

## Market Takeaway
Sydney Woodward Smith shows thin auction liquidity with 9 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-28.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $130 and $625.
- 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: 87.5% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 12.5% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $90
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-28
- Days since latest sale: 205
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Dominic Winter Auctions: 1 lots
- O'Gallerie: 1 lots
- Shapiro Auctions LLC: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots
- Sydney Rare Book Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-17 | SIDNEY \(ROBERT SIDNEY\) SMITH \(1877 \- 1935\) "Old Doc Yack: There's nothing on the road that Doc can't trim." | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
2. 2026-03-26 | Sidney \(Sir Philip\) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia... Now since the First Edition augmented and ended, rare first complete edition, Printed \[by John Windet\] for William Ponsonbie, 1593. | Forum Auctions \- UK | £5,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sidney-sir-philip-the-countesse-of-pembrokes-arcadia-now-since-the-first-edition-augmented-and-ended-rare-first-complete-edition-printed-by-john-windet-for-william-ponsonbie-1593-65-c-d0b879d0d4
3. 2025-07-28 | SIDNEY \(SYDNEY\) BELL \(Oregon/UK, 1888\-1964\) OIL ON CANVAS, PORTRAIT OF A BOY. | O'Gallerie | $90
4. 2020-11-25 | Sidney \(Sir Philip\) Copy Letter to Lord Burghley, watermarked Royal arms of England, \[c. 1697\], "The Queen, at my Lord of Warwick's request, hath been moved to join me in his office of Ordnance; and 2 … | Forum Auctions \- UK | £130
5. 2016-06-29 | Sidney \(Thomas, active 1900\-1930\). \- Lantern Hill, Ilfracombe, | Dominic Winter Auctions | £140
6. 2014-08-09 | Original Oil Painting by Sydney Woodward Smith | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$250
7. 2012-09-29 | SIDNEY, HERBERT | Shapiro Auctions LLC | N/A
8. 2010-04-12 | SIDNEY, ALGERNON, Sir. Discourses on Government. 1704 | Swann Auction Galleries | $270
9. 2009-03-24 | Sidney \(Sid\) Lawrence Brackett American, 1852\-1910 English Toy Spaniels | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $625
10. 2003-09-12 | Sydney Woodward Smith \(Australian, 20th Century\) | Skinner | $764

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