£11,400 Dresser chair saved from the tip
EN ROUTE to the recycling centre, the owner of this Victorian armchair called in at his local saleroom to ask if it might be worth saving from the skip. He was told by Andrew Smith of Itchen Stoke, near Winchester, that the chair, in store for some years, might bring £80-120. It was consigned for sale on February 7.
In fact, word quickly reached the auctioneers that the sturdy chair, with its ebonised and gilt deco…