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The items will go on sale at Toovey’s auction house in West Sussex on December 1.
Such auctions include the sale of high ... The largest on-site contents auction to date, ... 2011 Sep 13 - Sep 15 (3) — Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex, and ...
Muntham Court was a country house and estate near a village of Findon, West Sussex, England.In the 1800s the estate covered 1,890 acres (760 ha). [4] Following the death of Colonel U.O. Thynne in 1957 the estate measuring about 1,025 acres (415 ha) [5] was split up and auctioned off. [2]
A 1936 painting by Max Ernst went for £64,800 despite having failed to sell at auction twice in previous years. [22] The proceeds went to the endowment fund of West Dean College. [22] Monkton House itself was put on the market, with 66 acres of woodland and a cottage, for £750,000 in June 1986 (equivalent to £2,775,778 in 2023). [22]
Auction Notes Images Source Auction House Date Location Sale price (USD) Original Adjusted [5] Unidentified Nest with 10 eggs Found in China Bonhams: September 15, 1993: London $76,000 $160,299 Purchaser was an anonymous American buyer. Collector also bought a set of 5 eggs at same auction for $18,750. [6] [7] Sue [a] (FMNH PR 2081 ...
Among the objects sold were furniture, silver, paintings, tapestries and porcelain, with a portrait previously identified as Queen Elizabeth I (but now considered more likely to be Catherine Howard, née Carey, Countess of Nottingham) achieving the highest auction price of £325,250. [10] In total, the auction raised £7.9 million. [10]
The sale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. [1]
In West Sussex, just as in neighbouring counties, it proved popular to convert these buildings – sturdily built, often attractively designed and usually sold cheaply – into houses [35] (as at Somerley, [36] Sidlesham, [37] Fernhurst, [38] Walderton [39] and West Wittering) [40] or for commercial use, as evidenced by the former Bible ...