Tim Ingles & Paul Hayday maintain a unique working relationship with Sotheby’s, acting as their exclusive consultants for musical instruments. In a tradition that we are proud to continue, Sotheby’s held its inaugural musical instrument auction at its New Bond Street galleries in 1969.
1969
Sotheby’s opens its specialist Musical Instrument Department
June
1971
Lady Blunt Stradivari sold for a world auction record, £81,000
May
1972
Sale of the Lord Amherst Stradivari, 1734
Nov
1974
Sale of the Da Vinci Stradivari, 1712
April
1977
Sale of the decorated Greffuhle Stradivari, 1709
Nov
1978
Sale of the Ebersholt Guarneri del Gesù, 1739
Nov
1978
Sale of the Gore Booth Stradivari cello, 1710
May
1979
Sale of the Kreisler; Huberman Stradivari, 1733
Oct
1979
Sale of the Reynier Stradivari, 1727
Nov
1979
Sale of the Kux; Baron-Rothschild Stradivari, 1713
June
1983
Sale of the Barjansky Stradivari cello, 1684
Nov
1983
Sale of the Lady Tennant Stradivari, 1699
April
1984
Sale of the Bonjour Stradivari cello, c1696
Nov
1984
Sale of the Cathédrale Stradivari, 1707
April
1985
Sale of the Jules Falk Stradivari, 1723
March
1986
Sale of the Piatti Stradivari, 1717
March
1988
Sale of the Marie Hall Stradivari, 1709
June
1988
Sale of the Cholmondeley Stradivari cello, 1698
November
1988
Sale of the Sam Bloomfield Collection
November
1988
Sale of the Baron Heath Guarneri del Gesù, 1743
1994
Tim Ingles joins Sotheby’s Musical Instrument Department
1997
Paul Hayday joins Sotheby’s Musical Instrument Department
November
1997
Sale of the Pollitzer Guarneri del Gesù, 1736
November
1999
Sale of the Yehudi Menuhin Collection
November
2001
Sale of the Le Brun Stradivari, 1712
November
2003
Sale of the Nachez Stradivari, 1716
November
2003
Sale of the Josefowitz Stradivari cello, circa 1732
2003
Sale of the Ferni Guarneri del Gesù, 1732
2005
Sale of the Havemeyer Stradivari, 1708
2007
Sale of the Emiliani Stradivari, 1723
2007
Sale of the Archinto Stradivari cello, 1689
March
2008
Sale of the Albert Cooper Collection
2008
Sale of the ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, c1741
2009
Sale of the Fountaine Guarneri del Gesù, 1738
2010
Sale of the Goetz Stradivari, 1695
2012
Exhibition of the work of J.B. Vuillaume
2012
Tim Ingles & Paul Hayday found Ingles & Hayday
2014
Sale of the Molitor Stradivari, 1697
June
2014
Auction of the Macdonald Stradivari viola, 1719
March
2016
Sale of the Evangelists quartet by J.B. Vuillaume, 1863
March
2017
Sale of the Croall; McEwen Stradivari, 1684
2017
Sale of the Il Museo; Grumiaux Guarneri del Gesù, 1739
2017
Sale of the Baron Heath Guarneri del Gesù, 1743
November
2018
Sale of the Mstislav Rostropovich Collection
October
2019
Sale of the Jupiter Stradivari, 1698
March
2020
Sale of the Bill Watson Collection
2020
Sale of the Koeber Stradivari, 1725
2020
Sale of the Kreisler; Lord Amherst Stradivari, 1734
June
2021
Sale of the Tsar Nicholas violin by J.B. Vuillaume
June
2021
Sale of the Martin Lovett Collection
March
2023
Sale of the Norman Rosenberg Collection
March
2024
Sale of the Vieuxtemps cello by J.B. Vuillaume
