Gavin Strang, managing director of Lyon & Turnbull Picture: Stewart Attwood
By Scott Wright
FOR Gavin Strang, managing director of Lyon & Turnbull, the buzz of the auction room floor is unlikely to ever be usurped. But online sales run a pretty close second.
Lyon & Turnbull, the venerable Edinburgh auctioneer, ramped up its operations in the digital realm shortly after the pandemic took hold in March.
And it has proved to be a big success, so much so that the firm has been adding to its team, appointing three new specialists, covering watches, decorative arts and design, and European ceramics and works of art, last month. It now has around 50 staff.