Get Bidding - in Person, Online or by Telephone ; Antiques & Collecting in the Second in a Monthly Series On How to Collect Antiques, Sally Hoban Looks at Buying at Auction
Birmingham Post › December 01, 2007
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Not so long ago, if you were new to collecting, it's probable that you didn't know much about what happens in an auction room. But thanks to a raft of daytime antiques TV shows, auctioneers are appearing in our living rooms most mornings. Watching these programmes might give you an idea of what happens at an auction. However, they won't disclose the finer details about buying and selling antiques at auction, which is both exciting and relatively easy to do.
The internet has revolutionised the way that people do business in auction houses. A few years ago, the biggest prices tended to be reserved for the London salerooms.See the full content of this document
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Get Bidding - in Person, Online or by Telephone ; Antiques & Collecting in the Second in a Monthly Series On How to Collect Antiques, Sally Hoban Looks at Buying at Auction
But now anyone in the world can search for exactly what they are looking for online and provincial salerooms are achieving sometimes spectacular results.
For example, a painting at a Gloucestershire auctioneers sold recently for pounds 2 million against a reserve ...See the full content of this document
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