By Terence Ryle
UK dealers buying foreign silver, overseas bidders taking British work and generally solid interest for traditional pieces of mid-ranking silver brightened up the normally quieter late summer sales across the country.
Material from abroad formed a substantial part of the success at Mallams’ (20% buyer’s premium) specialist sale at Oxford on August 27 but it was a quintessentially English piece which led the day: a George I ale jug.