Report by Terence Ryle
“I’m enjoying quite a honeymoon period,” said Mark Law, new joint owner of Dreweatts (24% buyer’s premium). He took on the day-to-day running of the Newbury auctioneers on May 9 ahead of taking over formally with investor partner Gavin Alexander later this summer.
First came the £656,000 Asian specialist sale on May 16 (see ATG No 2296). Then followed the May 24 sale of the ‘selected contents’ of the Cotswolds country house Abbotswood, the most eagerly anticipated inheritance from the previous Stanley Gibbons regime.