Prolific collectors Austin Smith and his late partner Margaret Harkins accrued more than 1,000 dolls over more than seven decades. One item from the collection near Bath went for £15,000.
Austin Smith and his late partner Margaret Harkins covered the shelves of their large home near Bath, Somerset, with more than 1,000 dolls after they began collecting in 1949
Approximately 50% of an 18th-Century doll collection sold for more than £250,000 at auction and an English wooden doll dating back to 1740 was the top lot, selling for £27,500.For the.