“Every auctioneer dreams of being instructed to handle a wide-ranging collection lovingly put together over decades and then packed away out of sight.“
James Nicholson was among the Dreweatts specialists who, last summer, found themselves in five warehouse units surrounded by boxes and packing crates unopened for two or more decades.
The hugely eclectic private single-owner collection mixing ancient and modern was offered for sale in 745 lots at Donnington Priory, near Newbury, across three days from January 23-25 in a catalogue titled An Eye for Luxury: East Meets West. It totalled £1.17m.