A Drunken Auctioneer Set My Path

Seaboard Auction Gallery's First sale: Jake Brown, Martin Willis & JR Larue, 1979

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I guess you could say that our family got in the antiques auction business because of drunkenness. Most people would be embarrassed to admit something like that, but not I.

Long before my father ever stood behind the podium with gavel in hand, he was relentlessly dragging me …….

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