Alderfer Auction
A family-owned Pennsylvania auction house selling fine art, especially the Pennsylvania Impressionists, along with jewelry, furniture, coins, firearms, toys, vehicles and real estate. What it sells, how buying works there and what it costs, with a straight link to the house.
- Based in
- Hatfield, PA
- Buyer's premium
- 23%–25%
- Card fee
- 3%
- Also sells
- Real estate
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About Alderfer Auction
Alderfer is a family-owned auction house in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, with satellite offices in Doylestown and Wayne. It is especially known for paintings by the Pennsylvania Impressionists of the New Hope school.
Beyond fine art it sells jewelry, furniture and decorative arts, coins and currency, firearms and militaria, mid-century design, dolls, toys and trains, and vehicles and equipment, and it runs real estate auctions, appraisals, downsizing help and estate sales.
What Alderfer Auction sells
How buying works at Alderfer Auction
- RegisterGive your name, address, phone and ID for a bidder number. Absentee bids start at $50; phone bids start at $250 or half the low estimate and go in writing about 24 hours ahead.
- Choose how to bidBid on bid.alderferauction.com, in its iPhone app, by telephone, with an absentee bid, in person, or through LiveAuctioneers.
- Check the premiumAlderfer sets the buyer's premium for each auction in its terms. Other platforms add 5%.
- Pay within 5 business daysInvoices under $2,500 are charged to your card on file. Larger ones are paid by cash, wire, cashier's check or money order. Cards and PayPal add 3%.
- Collect within 15 business daysPick up in Hatfield by appointment, or ship through its partner Parcel Place. Wine and alcohol are pickup only.
What it costs
Alderfer sets the buyer's premium for each sale. The rates on its 2026 sales:
| Sale and how you bid | Buyer's premium |
|---|---|
| Flat-rate sales on Alderfer's platform (jewelry, tools and equipment, 2026) | 23% |
| Catalog sales on Alderfer's platform: to $50,000 / to $250,000 / to $1M / above | 25% / 23% / 21% / 19% |
| As shown on LiveAuctioneers (2026): to $50,000 / to $250,000 / above | 30% / 28% / 26% |
| Any third-party platform, per Alderfer's terms | +5% of the total (hammer + premium + tax) |
| Paying by card or PayPal | +3% |
A $10,000 painting in a catalog sale costs $12,500 on Alderfer's own platform before tax and fees. Pennsylvania residents pay 6% sales tax unless exempt.
Paying, pickup and storage
| When to pay | Within 5 business days; invoices under $2,500 are charged to the card on file |
| Payment over $2,500 | Cash, wire, cashier's check or money order |
| Pickup | Hatfield by appointment within 15 business days; then $5 a day; abandoned after 60 days |
| Shipping | Parcel Place (exclusive partner); firearms shipped in-house; wine pickup only |
| Absentee and phone bids | Absentee from $50; phone from $250 or half the low estimate, in writing 24 hours ahead |
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