H&H Classics posted a 76 percent sell-through and £1.3 million ($1.588 million) in total sales for its recent auction at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham, England. The most expensive purchase at the sale was a 1932 Brough Superior 680 Black Alpine that brought £120,750 ($147,520).
More than 300 motorcycles were offered for bidding.
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The ’32 Brough Superior had been restored by marque specialist Simon Miles but instead of being offered all bright and shiny, it was cosmetically aged so that, as H&H put it, “it exuded a careworn look.”
“One of only two such restorations carried out by Mr. Miles, the 680’s patina was widely admired,” the auction house said in its post-sale news release.