There are many reasons for attending a Rogers Jones sale but Ben Rogers Jones hinted that stand-up comedy at its unintentional best could be one.
At a recent picture sale, his father David, a veteran with more than 50 years of experience at the rostrum, was urging recalcitrant farmers in the room to keep bidding on a decent oil depicting sheep.
They were fine animals, he pointed out, and what’s more they wouldn’t require the mucky business of cleaning their rumps or the laborious work of removing their wool. “You won’t have to dag or shear them,” he said. Or, rather, that’s what he meant to say.