Homes & Antiques

Tim Bowen Antiques

When Tim Bowen started work in a small auction room in west Wales 30 years ago, he admits he didn’t know much about antiques. When somebody brought in a dilapidated old chair and the auctioneer asked him to put a notice on it that read ‘handle with care’, Tim thought it was a joke because he was the new boy. But the chair sold for £1,000. It was a Welsh stick chair. ‘That was it, I had to find out more,’ recalls Tim, who worked at the

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