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9 May 2015

9:00 AM

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

By any measure it was a glamorous auction. The auctioneer was Mark Politmore, aka 7th Baron Poltimore, Deputy Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and a regular guest on Antiques Roadshow. He was selling The David Clarke AO Collection together with other Important Australian Art. It was worth his journey. Deploying charm, wit and efficiency he sold 111 lots on the night for over $11million, the highest auction result for Sotheby’s Australia since May 2007.

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