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Royal works of art! The Queen and Princess Margaret's childhood drawings sell for over £11,000 ...

The Daily Mail 28 Apr 2023
The Queen and Princess Margaret's heartwarming childhood drawings have sold for over £11,000 at auction ... The sisters were both booked in to see royal dentist Alan Aldred at his practice in Park Street, London ... It read ... Earlier this week, Mr Aldred sold the drawings and his letter from the Queen with Cheffins Auctions in Cambridge ... He said ... .
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Retired Essex engineer's remote control tank sold at Cambridge auction

BBC News 22 Apr 2023
Roland Hopper's decade long retirement project sells for £20,000 at auction. .
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All-terrain vehicle once owned by Jeremy Clarkson to be sold at auction

Irish Independent 11 Apr 2023
The 2005 Argo Avenger 8×8 was bought new by the journalist and former Top Gear host, before it was sold around 2010, according to auctioneers Cheffins.It is estimated it will fetch between £2,000 to £4,000 when it goes under the hammer in Cambridge on April 22.Cheffins described ...
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Retired engineer's homemade remote-controlled tank and lorry could sell for £25,000

ITV 08 Apr 2023
An engineer who was “bored to tears” in retirement built an 8ft-long remote-control transporter lorry with a tank on it - and now hopes to make £25,000 on them at auction ... He is planning to sell the model tank and transporter at auction at Cheffins in Cambridge on 22 April, where they have a pre-sale estimate of £20,000 to £25,000.
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Engineer who was bored in retirement builds remote control tank and transporter

AOL 05 Apr 2023
He is to sell the model tank and transporter at auction at Cheffins in Cambridge on April 22 where they have a pre-sale estimate of ...
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Watch: Retiree builds replica Sherman Firefly tank

The Daily Telegraph 05 Apr 2023
Mini Tank ... He is to sell the model tank and transporter at auction at Cheffins in Cambridge on April 22 where they have a pre-sale estimate of £20,000 to £25,000. Asked why he decided to sell, Mr Hopper said ... .
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JMW Turner painting of Chepstow Castle sold at auction for more than £90,000

AOL 28 Mar 2023
A JMW Turner painting of Chepstow Castle overlooking the River Wye has sold at auction to Chepstow Museum for £93,375. The sale price has beaten by almost double the pre-auction estimate of £30,000 to £50,000 ... It was sold at auction at Cheffins in Cambridge as part of The Fine Sale this month.
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What the Cambridge dons drink

The Spectator 24 Mar 2023
In June last year, King’s College Cambridge made more than £1 million from an auction of just 41 lots from its wine cellar ... A decade later I had returned to Cambridge for an MPhil in Gender Studies ...  ‘We had a group in Cambridge which I was honoured to be a part of ... ‘We had a group in Cambridge which I was honoured to be a part of,’ he told me.
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Princess Charlotte’s heartbreaking ‘Granny Diana’ Mother’s Day words about Prince William

Newsner 22 Mar 2023
It’s safe to assume that Prince William and Kate Middleton are – just like the rest of the Royal Family – currently busy preparing for King Charles and Camilla’s coronation ... READ MORE  ... Karwai Tang/WireImage ... The letter, written to a former steward at Buckingham Palace, Cyril Dickman, was sold at auction in Cambridge in 2017 ... Share ... .
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One of the earliest in existence, Jane Austen's letter to her sister to go on public display

Indian Express 19 Mar 2023
... author's former house in Chawton, Hampshire, where she spent the last eight years of her life.\u00a0The letter, dated 1798, is one of the 160 correspondents that have survived, and have come to Cheffins Auctioneers through a Cambridge resident's estate who acquired it in 2000.
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Rare early letter from Jane Austen to her sister will go on public display

The Guardian 17 Mar 2023
It came to Cheffins Auctioneers through the estate of a Cambridge resident who acquired it in 2000 ....
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News in pictures: Friday March 10, 2023

The Times/The Sunday Times 10 Mar 2023
The Arunima Kumar Dance company performed at Westminster Abbey’s Commonwealth service this week. PAUL QUEZADA-NEIMAN/ALAMY ... TOM DUFFIN/SOLENT NEWS ... AMPAS ... A collection of about 1,500 Dinky and Corgi model cars dating from the 1950s is expected to fetch as much as £30,000 when the toys go under the hammer at Willingham Auctions in Cambridge next week ... .
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What's the Buzz: Attend Casee Allen's show or visit the home expo

The Daily Jeff 02 Mar 2023
For more information call 740-439-9037 Downtown Arena, 1005 Wheeling Ave., Cambridge ... Benedict's 31st annual raffle and auction. The live auction returns this year to St ... A silent auction will take place from 8.30 to 10 a.m. and the live auction fun begins at 11 a.m ... Seventh St., Cambridge ... Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center, 7033 Glenn Highway, Cambridge.
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Pastoral princesses! Unseen pictures of Diana reveal how Kate's countryside look is inspired by her ...

The Daily Mail 24 Feb 2023
The Princess of Wales is often said to pay homage to her predecessor with her beautifully-curated looks ... Country chic ... Next month, the set of 22 pictures which the photos are included in will go under the hammer at Willingham Auctions in Cambridge ... The photos will be sold at auction in Cambridge on March 4 along with their original negatives ... .
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Picture of happiness! Unseen images of Prince William's first trip to Balmoral offer insight into ...

The Daily Mail 23 Feb 2023
Next month, a set of 22 pictures - which were taken by the Royal Family's close friend Lord John King of Wartnaby - will go under the hammer at Willingham Auctions in Cambridge ... The set of 22 pictures - which were taken by the Royal Family's close friend Lord John King of Wartnaby - will go under the hammer at Willingham Auctions in Cambridge.

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