Americans miss sale but world keeps turning– at £13,000

IT wasn’t the most promising opener to the season – a shadow of recession over Britain and as expected, a complete absence of American buyers – so the success at the Halls Welsh Bridge rooms on 21 September was all the more notable.

It didn’t start that way. Seventeen c.1825-1840 Staffordshire pastille burners in the forms of cotta…

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