We do not need to please the 42 attending buyers to have a good,...

We do not need to please the 42 attending buyers to have a good, or even great, auction result.

In fact, all we need is ONE buyer. ONE buyer who wants to scoop the lot and have a monopoly on what is arguably the only ethical rubies available.

We need ONE buyer to have a reasonable bid on each parcel for a 100% clearance.

No one can yet say this auction was a failure. Even if we have 41 disappointed buyers in another article.