Today, even Ireland has its struggles...
£36,000 private bid on cabinet shows underlying market strength: BRITISH auctioneers have long looked enviously across the Irish Sea where there still seems a wealth of high-quality furniture coming onto the market from private sources to be welcomed not merely by the trade but also by confident and well-heeled private bidders who have been the dominant force these past ten years and more.
It’s not all cakes and ale, or even soda bread and stout, however, as the 40 per cent unsold by lot …