The letter dictated in English to a secretary, is to be auctioned at Bonhams “Photography and Travel: India and Beyond” auction in London, on October 4, 2011 and is expected to fetch an estimated £1,000 to 1,500.
Before his retirement, he became the ceramics expert for Bonhams auction house.
In May 2008, one of three Galanis paintings titled Lady in White was removed from an auction scheduled for 20 May in Bonhams' Greek Sale as doubts over the authenticity of the piece caused a stir in the art world.
It is now quite common for a 1920's FA Cup Final programme to fetch in excess of £1000 at respectable auction houses such as Sotheby's or Bonhams with said sale receiving national press coverage.
His paintings have become popular at international auction houses, including, Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams.
In 1996, Brooks (now Bonhams) was contacted by the family of the now deceased owner to appraise some other cars, when the 400 GT was discovered in storage.
The auction house Bonhams - in its Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale on 12 July 2013 - sold Mercedes-Benz W196R chassis serial '00006/54' for a new World Record £19.7-million Sterling (incl. auction premium).
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In August 2013 it was announced that his portrait of François-Henri duc d'Harcourt was to be auctioned, by the Bonhams auction house in London, on 5 December.
The son of Barbara (neé Starkey) and Henry Sandon, a notable authority on Royal Worcester porcelain, John Sandon left school aged 16 and went to work at Phillips in London in 1975 where he quickly established himself as a porcelain specialist.
A bid of £1m offered by Damien Hirst for the entire collection had apparently been rejected by the auctioneers, and the owners sued Bonhams, arguing that this offer should have been accepted.