Candlesticks shine online at Michael Bowman's homespun sale
A recent sale conducted by Michael Bowman (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Newton Abbot, Devon was a homespun affair – held in the auctioneer’s house, with his wife handling phone and commission bids and two assistants operating the bidding platforms remotely by way of a loudspeaker mobile phone link.
It was, said Bowman, “an almost surreal experience” but he deemed the sale “as successful as any I…