RINGS SIR,—In your issue of October 21 you stated that
there was a 'knock' of £50,000 after the recent sale at Ashburnham Place. As Agent for the Trustees of the Ashburnham Settled Estates I arranged that sale. It was entrusted to a very eminent firm of London auctioneers, who were able to secure quite exceptional publicity for it. Many thousand people attended the view. and a large number left bids. At the sale there were more than 250 buyers, including a high proportion of private collectors, for less than 900 lots. We received full and adequate advice from the auctioneers as to reserves and such lots as seemed to need it were axlequately protected.
The proceeds of the sale considerably ex- ceeded our expectations. Both the auctioneers and the vendors are fully convinced that there was no 'knock' of any substantial nature at all at this sale. I think, in so far as your article Implied otherwise, that it was unfair to those responsible for arranging the sale. — Yours
[This letter is referred to in 'A Spectator's Notebook.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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