After the Hartleys (17.5% buyer’s premium) September 4 sale, auctioneer Andrew Hartley admitted: “Furniture did not perform as it was hoped from tiny chinks of daylight discernible in the last few months.”
However, compensations certainly emerged in other areas of what he said was “the most mixed selection of different items to be offered in a single sale” at the Ilkley rooms.
Top of the 727-lot variety bill was a carved marble Egyptian head. No date was essayed in the catalogue and the sole provenance was a 1917 Egyptian bill of sale.