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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 under the hammer. The viewing attracted high society to the Gloucestershire stately home and accord...
THE lavish contents of one of Britain's 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 Churchill's 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 items ranging in value from £50 kitchen glasses to £100,000 works of art. Auctioneers Duke's of...