Quality overrides damage limitations of bids: But will intrusive TV cameras give vendors the wrong ideas?

FOUR house clearances of properties each valued at over £1m meant some long and frantic hours of valuing and cataloguing for Wellers (15% buyer's premium)auctioneer Tim Duggan – three heavy weeks rewarded when the March 13 sale day was one of the best ever at the Surrey rooms with 95 per cent of the 1200 lots getting away notching up a total of well over £100,000.

True, not everyone was entirely happy. Some of the trade, predictably including London silver dealer…

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