Rich pickings as Dorset's quality vendors include Australians now
THE sales figures from Duke’s sale August 15 & 16 (buyer's premium: 15 per cent) would look good at any time in the year but coming in the high summer for a sale of silver, jewellery and furniture, they were particularly pleasing for auctioneer Matthew Denney.
How much encouragement this will be to other auctioneers is debatable. Not only is there old money i…