The antiques trade might have a darker side but there is also a certain black humour to it all.
In a new memoir Selling Dead People’s Things: Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails and Objects of Objectionable Estates, left, Duane Scott Cerny discusses some of the grim and humorous moments from his life as a dealer. “You just can’t say to the bereaved, ‘I’m sorry for your loss, but are those crucifixes for sale?’ (Well, you can, but it’s how you say it),” he writes.