Two very early 1923 for sale

[Steve kay]

I am not going to make any direct comments about Bonhams. What I might say is that auction houses such as Edmonds or Brightwells can be wholly trusted. If contracted about incorrect or dubious catalogue descriptions, they will correct them, Brightwells acknowledging the correction of history or provenance. Their estimates will reflect the best current market price, vendors seeking more might be helped to be realistic, and reserve prices are intended to stimulate interest, rather than diminish it. If a sale is not made, they will not, by 2.00 pm on the day following the sale, have removed the car to a store in Northampton, before the vendor selling her deceased husband’s car, had been able to arrange its return. Naturally, the removal and storage costs had immediately been charged. The unsuccessful vendor at either of the houses mentioned, when the car failed to reach its unlikely price, would not then have been contacted to say that an offer for a much lower figure had been received, would they like to accept that. Within the community of Austin, Morgan, Riley or other owners, we know that Coys are a bunch of crooks, some of whose directors have fled the country. We know that if, for instance we were to choose to sell through Brightwells, Matthew Parkin is well known and can be spoken to at a trials section or in a paddock, so hardly trying to hide anything. Forum members might deduce that certain houses are somewhere in between criminality and being trustworthy, and best avoided. Sadly, some  car owners, or more sadly, thier widows, might not know such things. Just an observation.