Greene pastures for furniture trade

There was an upbeat country house feel at Mallams’ salerooms with almost half the sale comprising the local Grove House estate of the late Mrs Graham Greene, the 98-year-old widow of the writer (Greene was, as he said, “a bad husband and a fickle lover” but although he and his wife separated in 1948 they never divorced).

Not that such niceties, or even Greene’s eminence, concerned most bidders. Naturally the provenance …

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