THE THOUGHT OF Denmark being a car-collecting hotbed had never occurred to me until 1994, when I was sent there with Sotheby’s to help stage the dispersal sale of part of the Åalholm Collection, a diverse range of vehicles from a private museum built-up over a 30-year period by the barons Raben-Levetzau. Held when values were somewhat in the doldrums, that initial auction of 181 lots of cars and automobilia raised a relatively paltry £865,000.
In 2012, however, RM (now RM Sotheby’s) was tasked with shifting the remaining 175 cars from the collection in a no-reserve sale that, in a rising market, realised more than £8.2 million.
This September, however, Bonhams managed to make even RM’s success pale into insignificance with its first auction on Danish soil, at which it offered the…
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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015