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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 81496, member: 25&quot;]The latest on the hoard disposal was tonight&#039;s Village Hall sale. I consigned some very third rate stuff to one of those auctions that hire a hall every month to run an evening sale. Not everything was from the hoard, some was random stuff from the shed, but the total was about £700 , so counting hoard bits only, probably about £500 toward the hoard haul. </p><p><br /></p><p>While I was there I had a chat with my friend from the good auction which will be selling the more interesting items that I have illustrated recently, many in this thread. November seems to be the date to look out for, as the most suitable sale, and I am in no hurry, so the wait is OK with me. Some of the items will be waiting for a Mantiques sale next summer!. </p><p><br /></p><p>The village hall was interesting, loads of stuff sold for next to nothing, you&nbsp; could have bought half the hall full for under £10, often only £2 or £4. Mostly not rubbish,&nbsp; either, just modern stuff that everyone there seemed to have enough of already. </p><p><br /></p><p>A bunch of Royal Doulton &#039;Spirit&#039; horses, this one sold for about £14 unlike ebay.</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROYAL-DOULTON-HORSE-SPIRIT-OF-THE-WILD-DA183-BLACK-MATT-FINISH-BEAUTIFUL-BOXED-/231696307695" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROYAL-DOULTON-HORSE-SPIRIT-OF-THE-WILD-DA183-BLACK-MATT-FINISH-BEAUTIFUL-BOXED-/231696307695" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROYAL-DOULTON-HORSE-SPIRIT-OF-THE-WILD-DA183-BLACK-MATT-FINISH-BEAUTIFUL-BOXED-/231696307695</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A 5 foot high Capodimonte framed mirror sold for about £40, it must have cost a grand new. Other good modern mirrors were well nigh given away around a tenner. The was no catalogue and viewing was for 2 hours before the sale and with many mixed and box lots.</p><p><br /></p><p>The audience were mostly like me, middle-aged or old and middle or working class. My stuff mostly went to two or three regular dealers, for dealers prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone wanting to actually buy stuff for a home would have a field day, but I got the impression that pretty well everyone had pretty well everything that they wanted already, and it was just a bit of an evening out for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still,it cleared some stuff and it&#039;s a few pounds more for the &#039;buying something really good &#039; fund.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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