By Terence Ryle
“When I come to look back at my career, I think this sale will have been the highlight,” said auctioneer Guy Schooling, 40 years at the rostrum, after selling the contents of Hertfordshire country house North Mymms Park.
As he said of the £1.75m record sale at Sworders (22% buyer’s premium) in Stansted Mounfitchet on April 17-18: “The total was achieved from about 575 lots at an average in excess of £5000 per lot – figures we may well not see again for some time.”