A glimpse of stocking excites novelty market
While classic silver chugs along at prices scarcely unchanged since the ’70s boom, novelty pieces provide the market with a buoyant area. The 90-lot silver section offered at Crewkerne on September 13 by Lawrences (15% buyer’s premium) saw only nine fail to get away and no casualties among the novelty pieces from abroad.
A match-holder in the form of a lady’s leg with garter and shoe, above right catalogued as Continent…