Voysey on the verandah

Expertise rewarded, a surprise (and happy) ending and just a touch of regret... the story of an unassuming set of four late 19th/early 20th century chairs, one shown right, offered by Greenslade Taylor Hunt (15% buyer’s premium) at Taunton on March 15, was the very stuff of auctioneering romance.

The chairs came fresh from a country residence, Stoke House in the Somerset village of Stoke St. Mar…

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