Collecting: Consigning Your Cellar To Auction

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Issue: March 31, 1995

March 31, 1995 Collecting Consigning Your Cellar To Auction By Peter D. Meltzer There is an apocryphal story about an elderly woman who arrived unannounced at Sotheby's wine depart-ment in the early '80s with a shopping bag containing a large bottle of an unknown claret from the family cellar.

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