14-07-2022, 12:30 PM
(11-07-2022, 09:11 AM)Mike Watterson Wrote: Dealers want to make a profit, but interior decorators / window/pub display designers will buy all the ones they think look nice at an auction and have deep pockets!
Depends on "fashion".
I knew a friendly wheeler-dealer in the NE who had contacts in that field. Must be 20 or more years ago he pulled up outside our house with a van loaded with mostly '30s sets from an attic in the Borders region: plenty of woodworm but I think most of those wound up as shop decorations, after I'd negotiated for the two or three I could accommodate at the time, the gem of which was a Defiant M900.
Not a hundred yards from our flat in the middle of town is a wedding shop with an early '30s Cossor in the middle of its window (and an upside-down vintage mincer converted to a clamp-on table lamp further into the room...)
Paul
