Commercial mix and keen estimates help standard offering to high take-up

There were no massed ranks of Prussian royal silver on offer at Sotheby’s Olympia (17.5/10% per cent buyer’s premium) on October 24. On offer here was a good 350-lot commercial mix of English and Continental fare from a variety of sources which netted £310,000.

Just over 250 of the 375 lots were silverwares, the remainder objects of vertu and portrait miniatur…

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