by Terence Ryle
Celebrating 10 years of sales at Sworders’ (23% buyer’s premium) custom-built auction house (the firm has actually been going since 1782), chairman Guy Schooling was in a justifiably buoyant mood.
More than 1100 lots covering most aspects of the old-school art and antiques world had been assembled for the Anniversary Sale at Stansted Mountfitchet on June 19-20 and garnered a premium-inclusive total of £780,000.