After a year of robust results, auctioneers from across the country flocked to the West End last month for their now legendary annual networking event.
Estates Gazette treated 60 industry stalwarts and rising stars to good food, fine wine and dubious jokes at the Ivy, WC2, accompanied on piano by EG’s Philip Brown.
Speculation over the General Election was rife, but as the hammer came down on the final sales of 2014, prospects for a prosperous new year seemed almost as certain as another glass of wine.
Left to right: John-Paul Bedwell, Chris McHugh, Jade Shrubsole, John Weatherall, Nick Muston,
Martin Christopher, Nigel Sheppard, Kevin Gilbert, John Roe, Mat Harris
Left to right: Graham Carter, James Emson, Stuart Nissen, Paul Mooney, Amjad Raja, Mark Lewis,
Tom Sheppard, Robert Noble, Gwen Thomas, Mark Gower
Left to right: Andrew Brown, Amber Rolt, Robin Howeson, Ashan Sultan, Oliver Childs, Tom Pilkington, Jo Seth-Smith, Sharon Harnett, Ian Tudor
Left to right: Jack Sidders, Chris Coleman-Smith, Clive Emson, Robin Cripp, Damian Wild,
Peter Cunliffe, Patrick Kerr, John Townsend, Neil MacKilligin
Left to right: Phillip Arnold, Philip Waterfield, Charles Smailes, David Salisbury, Simon Bailey,
John Stockey, Chris Berkin, Andrew Binstock, Rory Daly
Left to right: David Leary, Philip Brown, Paul Thompson, Toby Limbrick, James McHugh, Adrian Little, Rebecca Kent, Charlie Powter, Martin Hardy
Photographs by Dan Burman
