I never expected yesterday morning that I would be going to an auction, that changed when I read one of our free papers that we get each week.
Although I have lived here in Newbury for 32 years I have never been to an auction at Dreweatt Neate Donnington Sale rooms. It is in a large Georgian House with large garden on the outskirts of where I live. Although I was told over the phone that the Battle of Britain panel come up for auction at around 12 noon, it was nearly an hour later when the panel came up for auction. By that time there were few in the room, although there were many people wandering around rooms full of antiques waiting for the items to come up later in the afternoon. I had sat and had a coffee with an antique dealer, who was complaining that there were few textiles up for auction if she had known she would have stayed at home. In all I counted three women who were bidding for the textiles, I could not believe it when the panel come up for auction there were just 8 people left in the room. We were asked to start bidding at 5,000 pounds, you could hear a pin drop. Not a sound, suddenly the auctioneer says NOT SOLD. Now I did try to find out who was selling the panel. The panel is enormous, who would have the room to hang the panel, only a museum, even some museums would not be able to hang the panel. If you go to the Dreweatt Neat web site, it says exactly what was printed in their catalogue. Oh yes one antique dealer I spoke to said she had bought a large collection of bobbins of a gentleman who wife had just died that she was a well know lace maker and wrote books. That she had told him to go to a large auction house and sell them as she knew nothing about lace bobbins. Jean in Newbury - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
