Winter auction greeted with warm response
The plethora of single-collection sales at the start of the year was not at the expense of old-fashioned auctions offering good-quality offerings across the range of dealing and collecting – such as the Winter Fine Arts sale at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) of Dorchester.
Eighty per cent of the 1081 lots got away to a total of £592,000 at the January 24-25 auction. It …