Hertfordshire, UK - Wellers Auctioneers have generously donated £600 to Medecins Sans Frontieres which represents all the Salvo Fair auction's buyer's premium plus a personal donation from Chris Sykes, Weller's managing director.
The hammer total for the Salvo Fair sale was £5,659 with the top lot being the finials of Cox's Yard which made £3,800 and sold to a private who had visited the fair on Friday and bid over the phone on Saturday.
Apart from Glen Snelgar's sterling efforts on the rostrum, Wellers were also substantial sponsors of Salvo Fair 2012 in order to increase their profile with the salvage trade and attract more auction business. Salvo Fair would also benefit from future referrals which came about as a result of Wellers presence at the fair (so please consider using Wellers if you are thinking of holding an auction this year or next year - ed).
"Regarding the future Glen and the team view the whole exercise as a great success," Chris Sykes said, "and we will certainly wish to repeat it next year albeit with some tweaking. The auction received good support from a core group of traders and we hope that next year the support will grow to include a number of others who may have been undecided as to whether or not to commit lots in what was in this first year a bit of an experiment."
[This means that the total raised for Medecins Sans Frontieres by Salvo Fair 2012 was £1,066 - ed]
