Track of the Week - 23 June 2019
I wrote a few months ago about seeing an auction valuer with some of my dad's collections. Well this week was the auction itself so my mum, brother and I went off to Warwick to see how his items got on.
I'd never been to a proper auction before. It wasn't like Bargain Hunt. Maybe it was the specialist nature of the items (medals, militaria, notes, coins) or the fact that there was 800 lots to get through (99% not my dad's!) but it was far more business-like than on the telly. No reading out what the lot was, no trying to drum up extra bids, just the lot number, opening bid and then get on with it.
That's very different from the impression given of auctions and auctioneers in this 1956 Leroy van Dyke song. The Auctioneer (or The Auctioneer's Song) was written about van Dyke's cousin who was a Hall of Fame auctioneer himself. Yes, that is a thing.
The record sold two and a half million copies. They were different times.
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