The reputed auctioneers in Bangalore (Pacheco or some similar spelling was
one, in Langford Town) downed shutters in the early 90's.I wonder if the
famous Chennai auctioneers, Murray and Co, are still working or have closed
too? What wonderful stuff used to pass through their portals! Raghavan
(who, I think, owned Murray's) was extremely knowledgeable, and I used to
say that one sweep of his bespectacled eyes across my apartment was equal
to valuing the artefacts to a T! I used to go on Saturdays in those days
when the Chettiar houses were being dismantled, just to see and sometimes
touch the unaffordable wonders that were going on an unknown journey. I did
get some good stuff by sheer good luck too; an Avalokiteswara sits, to this
day, in my home.
I used to find very knowledgeable people in the antiques field in the
Central Street/Russell Market area, but that, too, is many moons ago, and
it had already started dwindling to only old furniture. Since becoming an
antique myself, I have lost touch completely with this fascinating part of
life. How is the fake-manufacturing trade doing? That had begun thriving by
the time I moved onthose antiques made in Gujrat and Rajasthan
Thank you for the quick peep into the past!
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 6:21 PM Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> If there is a reputable auctioneer in bangalore your best bet is to
> auction this collection through them
>
> Are there any books?
>
> On 11/04/20, 6:11 PM, "silklist on behalf of Pooja Sastry"
> pooja.sas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Pooja
> >
> > If you have a working cassette and CD player, please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Lakshmi
> >
>
> Hi Lakshmi, sorry this comes late, but we do have working cassette
> and CD
> players, will be happy to show you.
>
> I’ve had a very good experience with the antique dealer Ramachandra his
> > number is +91 96866 71615, he has a store (more of godown really) off
> > Commercial Street.
> >
> > Also, in case you find any fountain pens or stationary in there,
> I’ll be
> > happy to pay you for them as I collect fountain pens.
> >
> > If you are fine with it, me and my wife would be happy to come over
> (we
> > are quarantining ourselves until the 31st) and look at those wooden
> boxes
> > as she loves them as well.
> >
> > —
> > Thank you,
> > Bharath
> >
>
> I'm sorry for the late response, Bharath! Thanks so much for this lead,
> will follow this up after the lockdown. We do have fountain pens, and
> you
> and your wife are welcome to come over to look at them and the wooden
> boxes, except it looks like it will have to be after April now.
>
> Hope you are all safe and well, everyone. Enjoying the thread on
> behaviour
> change post-Coronavirus and thinking about how there's probably no
> "normal
> we can go back to" now.
>
> Pooja
>
>
>
>
