The month of March produced an unusually large number of awakened sleepers across the UK’s regional auction rooms – from an Old Master drawing to a rare Marklin tinplate train.
According to data from thesaleroom.com, the following 10 items sold at auction for more than 100 times their top estimate as bidders spotted their real potential or speculated on a possible discovery.
Typically, UK provincial auction houses would account for just three or four such ‘mega sleepers’ a month so March proved exceptional.