The £11,000 dining table too big for a council house
THE market for 19th century mahogany furniture remains, as Gloucestershire auctioneer Martin Lambert observed after Taylor & Fletcher, Humberts (10% buyer's premium) successful 455-lot mixed February 24 sale, extremely selective. But that is not a euphemism for moribund.
Offered the right piece of the right size – which does matter – the market responds. It did so in th…