History under the hammer: SOURCING LOCAL AND FAMILY HISTORY MEMORABILIA AT AUCTION
eBay has long been the established online auction site used to hunt down family memorabilia, most usually in the form of old documents. Online browsing is, however, a rather uninspiring experience incapable of recreating the special magic found in every saleroom where a cross-section of pre-loved objects patiently waits to be re-homed at the fall of the gavel.
My first venture back into the post-lockdown ‘world’ was to Railton’s saleroom at
