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My sister and her husband took a car load of heirlooms to the auction house in Wokingham and we now have the auctioneers' receipt, along with guideline valuations. There's only one object in the batch that they think will reach three figures, but one never knows...
It's all good fun.
And to add to the jollity we've been told there may be something dodgy about the exceptionally high price reached by the knocked-about tortoiseshell tea caddy we sold earlier. I haven't got the details entirely straight but it's something to do with the buyer not having paid up yet and a suspicion of money-laundering. If the deal falls through the caddy will be recycled into a future sale.
There's no auction in August because no-one wants to work too hard in high summer- and the next will take place in early September.
It's all good fun.
And to add to the jollity we've been told there may be something dodgy about the exceptionally high price reached by the knocked-about tortoiseshell tea caddy we sold earlier. I haven't got the details entirely straight but it's something to do with the buyer not having paid up yet and a suspicion of money-laundering. If the deal falls through the caddy will be recycled into a future sale.
There's no auction in August because no-one wants to work too hard in high summer- and the next will take place in early September.
