Buy, buy baby
TRANGE times in the auction world and not necessarily in ways you might at first think. In came the lockdown and, I rather assumed – as I’ll bet did most auctioneers – that it was adios to the heady days of bidders splurging eye-watering sums on things they might well want but most certainly do not need. But not a bit of it. Many post-lockdown auctions have, it appears, been going gangbusters. You may wonder why. I have my own pet theory. All over these closed-door islands, folk are unexpectedly getting to know their loved ones far better than they ever expected; far more suddenly than they ever expected. Given a choice between endless ‘quality time’ with their significant others and getting to know their beloved collections, I’ll wager many are opting for the latter. With the full encouragement of the former. I’ll even wager that some who have not collected stamps, coins, butterflies and such like since puberty struck are
