now THIS is a yard sale!

[Lady Cop]

OK, an estate sale.


Moving to a smaller property always entails a bit of a clear-out.

But when you’re departing from a 13-bedroom stately home worth £25million, it takes more than a car boot sale to dispose of the surplus items.

In the case of Viscount Cowdray, these include a £6million Gainsborough masterpiece and a hefty amount of the family silver.

Eight months after he put Cowdray Park on the market, he has announced a public sale at the 19^th-century country pile in Midhurst, West Sussex.

Books, clocks, carpets and furniture will all be available at prices from £100 to £250,000 and are expected to raise £4million. The family silver should bring in another £1.35million while a separate auction of British art, including the Gainsborough, could raise as much as £10.3million.


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Masterpiece: A Gainsborough painting, entitled Portrait of Miss Read, later Mrs William Villebois, will go up for auction at Christie's on July 5^th in London and is estimated at £6m

[Fibonacci Prima]

Beautiful painting. Beautiful dress. But you'd think she'd have had it pressed before having her portrait done. House is amazing, too. Haunted?

[Maggot]

I went around to the neighbors and asked if they were having yard sales this year. Usually they have a few and they look happy. This year I am trying to get everyone to have it on the same day that way when I have mine they can pay for the advertisement in the paper and stick all the signs at the road corners................What can I say, I'm a community organizer.

[Lady Cop]

i have a thread with antique china, but can't find it. this is a nice doorstop.
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A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a New York home has sold for $1.3million at auction.

The blue and white moon flask was auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's sale of Chinese works of art. Its presale estimate was $600,000 to $900,000.

The piece had been in the same family collection for decades. The auction house said the family decided to sell it after seeing a similar piece in a Sotheby's advertisement.

[OnBendedKnee]

Went to a yard sale and found a heavily soiled Cabage Patch doll.
Are they still valuable?

[ZEROSPHERES]

Went to a yard sale and found a heavily soiled Cabage Patch doll.
Are they still valuable?

Yes if she is a Matryoshka Cabbage Patch doll inside another Matryoshka Cabbage Patch doll inside a Ming Dynasty vase

[OnBendedKnee]

Shoot. Nope. It was tucked away in a tattered JC Penny's bag.