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A treasure trove of rare gold coins, worth up to £80,000 has been unearthed at a hoarder's cottage in Perthshire. Auction house valuers found the hidden pieces in among piles of debris and bric-a-brac at a rundown country house. The team from Lindsay Burns & Company in Perth were warned to ...
A Perthshire family were stunned to be told that their "box of tat" contained jewellery worth more than £20,000. Auctioneer Nick Burns made the discovery on a home valuation visit. "I went in to view some bits and pieces at a property in Perthshire," siad Mr ...
It has a modest estimate in the low thousands but auctioneer Nick Burns had an inkling that it could do better and he was proved spectacularly right. Painted by John Spencer Churchill, the nephew of the wartime ...
The idea of taking a gap year to see some of the world is nothing new, as a Perthshire discovery has revealed. An album of 114 albumen prints charts one local man's journey during 1886/87, taking in Tasmania, New Zealand, Honolulu, America and Canada. The album, which will be sold on September 5th in Perth, was spotted by auctioneer Nick Burns during a local house call. "The detail is ...
A remarkable collection which gives an insight into the working life of a highly regarded Scottish artist is to auctioned in Perth. Everything from the paint brushes John Murray Thomson worked with to dozens of finished paintings have come to light in a house in the Stathearn area. John Murray Thomson (1885-1974) was born in Crieff and educated at Morrisons Academy before attending Edinburgh ...
A stylish Art Deco figure discovered in a Perthshire house has sold for £12,000 at auction. The 1920's figure of a girl by German sculptor Ferdinand Preiss went to a private buyer based in the UK, bidding by telephone. At one stage eight phone lines were competing with buyers online and in the room at the Perth auction on Tuesday. "It was an excellent result for a period bronze and ivory by a ...
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