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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 4468314, member: 5515&quot;]Funny you should mention this. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was curious about the potential value of the piece at auction, and I found a UK auction house with a good history of prices for similar pieces. I contacted them expecting I might get a quick free auction quote (this is fairly standard with a lot of the U.S. auction houses I&#039;ve worked with) and I was a bit stunned to get back an email stating that I would have to pay for that service. Needless to say, I won&#039;t be working with that auction house. </p><p><br /></p><p>I certainly understand that no one works for free, but it seems the U.S. auction houses have figured out a simple reality: giving a quick simple auction estimate is very likely to lead to people choosing your auction house to list, and that&#039;s where you will make lots of $$. To me, it was immediately off-putting. I may reach out to another UK based auction house, but perhaps it&#039;s just a common practice in that region I wasn&#039;t accustomed to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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