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Nicholas Lowry has his hands full.
It’s Take-Your-Dog-To-Work Day at Swann Auction Galleries and Lowry, the president and principal auctioneer of the third-generation family business in New York, is balancing an interview with caring for an energetic puppy. What could go wrong?
Swann specializes in works on paper – books, maps, manuscripts, drawings, prints, and the such. Right about now Tilda, Lowry’s Boston Terrier pup, is threatening to knock over her water dish on prized posters in his office.
Fortunately, Lowry is as adept at doggie day care as he is behind the podium of one of the 30-35 auctions Swann holds annually. Tilda gets some attention. Her water dish remains upright. And disaster is averted.
“You’re always hoping some puppy will choose you and that it will be love at first sight,” Lowry says about seeing Tilda for the first time. “It didn’t quite happen like
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