A free, public search engine for real auction sale prices.

Where the prices come from

Public auction archives are crawled on a daily schedule. We extract the title, description, condition, estimate range and final hammer/sold price, then normalise currencies and categories into a single searchable index. Lots that did not sell are filtered out — you only see prices people actually paid.

How to search

Start at the home page and type a description of the item you want to compare — “Victorian silver tea service”, “Patek Philippe 5711”, “Meissen figurine”. Results are ranked by relevance to your query.

You can also drop a photo on the search box. We'll describe what we see in the image and turn that into a search query for you — handy when you don't know what something is called.

Browse by category or by auction house if you'd rather start wide and narrow down, or open Recent finds to see what just sold across the network.

How fresh is the data

Auction archives are re-crawled on a daily schedule, so most lots show up within a day of their sale being published. Some houses publish results slower than others; you may see a few weeks of lag on the long tail.

What we don't do

• We don't sell anything. There is no auction here — we just index what other sites have sold.
• We don't guarantee accuracy of any individual listing. Hammer prices, condition reports and identifications are as recorded by the originating auction. Treat each comparable as a data point, not a valuation.
• We don't require an account. There's nothing to sign up for, no quota, no paywall.
• No third-party trackers, no ad networks. We don't embed Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or anything similar. We do count how many people use the site for our own operational visibility, but the data lives only on our servers and is never shared.
  • One functional cookie: snaplot_sid — a random ID, 30-day expiry, no PII, used solely so we can count unique visitors without your IP being stored in plain text.
  • One operator cookie: sbitadmin_token — only set if you sign in to the admin panel.
  • IP & user-agent are hashed (SHA-256 with a server-side salt) before they touch our database, so the raw values can't be recovered from our logs.

Get in touch

Spot a wrong listing, a price that looks bogus, or want a category we don't cover yet? Email hello@snaplot.co.uk.