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Size matters to evolving sale formats

Jeremy Lamond

JEREMY Lamond is bigging up his auction house. As fine art director at Halls, promoting the business goes with the territory, but the ‘bigging up’ in question here is around the Shrewsbury firm’s sales format.

Halls says that demand by private and trade buyers for larger auctions with a broader range of quality items on offer has persuaded it to hold six major seasonal sales during 2017.

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