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now THIS is a yard sale! - Lady Cop - 04-20-2011 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 19th-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. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1378877/6m-Gainsborough-seen-half-century-star-attraction-worlds-poshest-jumble-sale.html#ixzz1K6LqNR4Y Masterpiece: A Gainsborough painting, entitled Portrait of Miss Read, later Mrs William Villebois, will go up for auction at Christie's on July 5th in London and is estimated at £6m RE: now THIS is a yard sale! - Fibonacci Prima - 04-20-2011 Beautiful painting. Beautiful dress. But you'd think she'd have had it pressed before having her portrait done. House is amazing, too. Haunted? RE: now THIS is a yard sale! - Maggot - 04-20-2011 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. RE: now THIS is a yard sale! - Lady Cop - 09-15-2012 i have a thread with antique china, but can't find it. this is a nice doorstop. ----------------------- 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. RE: now THIS is a yard sale! - OnBendedKnee - 09-15-2012 Went to a yard sale and found a heavily soiled Cabage Patch doll. Are they still valuable? RE: now THIS is a yard sale! - ZEROSPHERES - 09-15-2012 (09-15-2012, 10:06 PM)OnBendedKnee Wrote: Went to a yard sale and found a heavily soiled Cabage Patch doll. Yes if she is a Matryoshka Cabbage Patch doll inside another Matryoshka Cabbage Patch doll inside a Ming Dynasty vase RE: now THIS is a yard sale! - OnBendedKnee - 09-16-2012 Shoot. Nope. It was tucked away in a tattered JC Penny's bag. |