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BBC News
23-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
African mask valued at £300 sells for £107k
A 20th-century African mask sold for £107,100, more than 300 times its guide Kwele mask from Gabon was given an estimate of between £300 to £500 by Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, Wiltshire, but there was "competitive" bidding from all over the object - just 29.5cm high - was from the private collection of an interior items at the sale on Wednesday exceeded expectations including a necklace from North East India which sold for £8,820 against an estimate of £1,500-£2,000. The African mask belonged to the late interior designer Eldred Trewvella "Bill" & Wallis specialist Will Hobbs said: "We had bids from the UK, Belgium, France and USA, phone bids from UK and Paris, but it eventually won out to a French buyer." One of the other successful pieces was a 19th or 20th-century Thai stone Buddha head that sold for £2,772, well above its guide price of £100 to £200.
BBC News
05-02-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Devon family's historic plates fetch more than £20k at auction
Two historic Delftware plates belonging to a Devon family have sold for more than £20,000 at auction. The rare 17th Century artefacts, depicting King James II and a Chinese figure standing in a rocky landscape, were sold separately for £12,600 and £7,560, including buyers' premiums, at Woolley & Wallis auctioneers on Wednesday, a spokesperson said. Clare Durham, ceramics specialist at Woolley & Wallis, said the two items were "incredibly rare", adding neither has been seen on the market for "upwards of a century".The plates appeared on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow in Exeter in 2014, when ceramic expert John Sandon described them as "rare as you can get". While appearing on the television programme, the owner said she transported the valuable items to the city in her handbag and said they had been hanging in the hallway of her husband's family home for & Wallis said one of the plates depicting the last British Catholic monarch, who reigned between 1685-1688, was one of the strongest clues to their date and value.
