Keys is holding two specialist sales next year to whet the appetite. Not only does the Norfolk auction house have a shipshape selection dedicated to ‘local hero’ Nelson, but it has also secured the diploma collection of the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA), Tom Derbyshire writes.
Such specialist offerings are a significant part of a revamp at the firm’s large, four-acre site to the north of Norwich, which involves a fundamental change to a sales calendar established in the 1950s when Keys started.
Kevin Lines, Keys’ director and general manager, says: “We have our East Anglian sale coming up at the end of this month, and once that has happened we will start work.”