KNOWLEDGE IS POWER (WELL, MONEY, ANYWAY)

Did you hear about the shop that sold an old Russian oil painting for 35 quid, only to be told by the art dealer buyer that it was worth a lot, lot more?! To be fair, we thought it was a bit boring and so did you, our customers, because it was on our wall for about 3 months before the art dealer bought it. So you can all share the blame! And it’s not the one in the photograph as we didn’t even think it was worth taking a picture...

Have we sold other items that were worth a lot more than we were asking? Difficult to know unless the buyer comes back and brags! We have a regular that never fails to mention the print he bought from us being valued at 7 times what he paid.

In our industry knowledge is everything and, to be honest, you can never know enough and will never know enough. Over the years we have adopted the philosophy that if we’ve made our money on the deal then we’re happy.