Lively furniture demand boosts Lewes and Crewkerne auctions
With impressive bids from UK, Continental and US buyers on lots from paperweights and 17th century oak carvings to snuff boxes, and surprisingly high bids on fine English furniture, the Autumn Fine Sale at Gorringe’s (21% buyer’s premium) topped the £1m hammer mark.
Excellent in itself, the result left the question as to whether this was a case of a number of hig…