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The ultimate face mask was bound to tempt post-lockdown buyers but will other luxury items fare as well without the events at which to flash them, wonders Roger Field

- Roger Field

HALLELUJAH! The auction houses are pretty much open again (many doing viewings by appointment); evermore live auctions are happening and the buying/selling machine is grinding back into action after months of furloughing and lockdown. And, it transpires, my witty aside in the July column that bored buyers are sitting at home burnishing their Buy buttons, avoiding their significant others whilst enhancing their collections, turned out to be bang on the money. With little else to waste their money on that, it seems, is exactly what folk were doing, much to the auctioneers’ delight, although not in all categories. I suspect that, like many businesses, auctioneer bosses have used the lockdown to take a long, hard look at the way they do business, and who does exactly what, and may have come to some unexpected conclusions.