About Invaluable
Invaluable is the world's largest and most comprehensive fine auction database service including unabridged upcoming and past auction catalogues and price results for over 2,000 prestigious international art, antiques, and collectable auction houses of all sizes including Gorringes, Spink, Lyon & Turnbull, Tennant's, Ewbank, Lawsons, Mallam's, Bearne's, Bellman's, and Simon Chorley Art to name only a few.
Fine art galleries and art collectors are assured that they won't miss their favorite artists by using our Art Search automatic alert service to find art they desire from over over £250 million offered at auction each week by the world's leading auction houses including paintings, drawings, photography, prints, and sculpture. Subscribers to Invaluable Fine Art pay only £20 per month to receive Art Search plus unlimited access to the Fine Art Database.
Dealers and collectors save valuable time by using our Auction Search automatic alert service to find anything they desire from over over £250 million offered at auction each week by the world's leading auction houses including fine art and all other categories such as furniture, silver, ceramics, toys, coins, jewellery and much, much more. Subscriptions to Auction Search start for as little as £20 per month.
Art and antiques professionals, scholars, collectors of all types, libraries, museums, and historical associations use our Auction Catalogue and Price Database to research the original unabridged auction catalogue descriptions, provenance, price results and original price estimates, and available images of all types of objects sold at auction. The database contains over 100,000 full catalogues with over 20 million price results worth over £40 billion. Subscriptions to our Auction Catalogue and Price Database start for as little as £10 per month.
Invaluable offers traditional fine auction houses a full range of technology, marketing, and e-commerce solutions such as RFC Systems, the world's leading enterprise software system that assists in managing all of the critical business functions of sophisticated auction houses including consignor, inventory, and salesroom management. RFC Systems are in use at more than 30 important auction houses in seven countries and four languages including Artcurial, Doyle, Eldred's, Gorringes, Lawsons, Lyon and Turnbull, Spink, Swann, Skinner, Tajan, and Weschler's.
Management Team
Adam Kirsch has been Chairman and CEO of Invaluable since Invaluable and Artfact merged in 2007. He oversees strategy, finance, and business development at Invaluable. Mr. Kirsch was a founder and remains a Special Limited Partner of Bain Capital, a global leader in private equity investing, where he specialized in working with consumer and retail business investments including Staples, Sports Authority, Duane Reade, Wesley-Jessen, and Brookstone.
Rod Funston, President, founded RFC Systems in 1987 and has been the chief architect of its leading auction house enterprise software systems. Since the merger of Invaluable with Artfact, he has overseen auction house technology and product strategy at Invaluable. Mr. Funston is a dual citizen of the U.S. and U.K., and has held positions as Comptroller for Phillips Auctioneers in New York, and Director of Information Technologies for Bonhams Auctioneers in London.
Supporting Mr. Kirsch and Mr. Funston is a team of more than twenty-five dedicated people in the United Kingdom and the United States providing sales, customer service, application development, and operations. The unparalleled experience and attention to customer satisfaction of the Invaluable team are the driving force behind Invaluable's success, and the reason Invaluable has the best customer references in the industry. The Invaluable team looks forward to working for you.