Buy—Keep—Sell An insight into the world of a professional auctioneer and savvy glass collector

摘要

WILL FARMER, director at Fieldings Auctioneers, gave us a fascinating insight at the recent Glass Association AGM into the current state of the glass market, his personal interests in the world of glass collecting and what he sees is selling, not selling, and perhaps especially for us GA members, what to buy now. WE learned that he attended his first auction at the tender age of 3 months and grew up surrounded by antiques as his mother, who clearly had a good eye, continued to buy, sell and buy again to improve her own collection. I am sure there are many of us who find the selling part really hard, as even lesser-quality pieces that had meaning at the time they were bought, although relegated to the back of the glass cabinet, never seem to find their way onto eBay or the floor of an auction house. Hence we are always trying to find space to squeeze just one more really special piece in somewhere!