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The 474-year-old Sandford Orcas Manor near Sherborne, Dorset is being sold after Sir Mervyn Medlycott died in 2021. A wide array of items from the property exceeded their valuation at auction.

The painting, that was taken from an art gallery, was found by auctioneers at a private house.

The relic was given pre-sale estimate of £8,000 but it sparked a frenzied bidding war among Asian collectors when it went under the hammer in Dorset.

bronze statue of General Wolfe which went to a Canadian bidder on the telephone for a staggering £ 46,800 With a total of almost £2million -more than doubling pre sale expectations - Duke’s auction at Wormington Grange was a spectacular success. The huge total was boosted by a world record auction when the top price of £292,500 for the Algernon Newton painting - “ A Dorset landscape “ - originally bought for £420 by the owners great grandmother at the Royal Academy in 1928, came u...

THE lavish contents of one of Britains most beautiful stately homes are being auctioned off in a £1m everything-must-go sale run by a Dorchester auction house. Wormington Grange has been owned since the 1970s by John Evetts, the grandson of Lord Ismay, Winston Churchills chief military strategist during World War Two. Mr Evetts has sold the neoclassical Cotswolds mansion for a multi-million pounds sum as he is downsizing to a smaller property in the area. The sale features over 1,000 i...

Wormington Grange in Stanton, Gloucestershire, is currently owned by John Evetts, the grandson of Churchills chief military assistant Lord Ismay.

BBC News Published image copyrightDukes Auctioneers image captionThe box was found on a shelf during a routine valuation by auctioneers at a house in Devon A cigar box that belonged to Sir Winston Churchill has sold for £79,000 at auction. The rosewood box, engraved with his name, has two personalised cigars inside, an amber and gold cigar holder and a personalised penknife. Dukes Auctioneers in Dorset had put an estimate of £5,000-£7,000. The hammer came down on the "incredible find" at £6...

Just because an artifact is ancient or historically significant or even sought after for years doesnt mean its owner is aware of it. Here are nine historical treasures that were used as common household items by owners who had no idea their random things were actually valuable antiquities. 1. Mazarin’s Gold Lacquer Chest // TV Stand and Bar In 1970, a French engineer bought a lacquer chest from his landlord in South Kensington, London, for £100. He used it as a TV stand for 16 years. When he...