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Saleroom sees sale of vases at £3,300
Tuesday 2nd March 2010, 8:00AM GMT.
The wooden teabox made as a special gift for Gracie Fields during her wartime visit to Burma.
A 16-lot private collection of Wedgwood lustre ware pieces from a vendor from the Shrewsbury area sold above estimate for £3,270, while a Coalport composite blue bat wing tea service made £800 and an art nouveau lead cased head study of a young girl sold for £780.
Halls’s fine art director Jeremy Lamond added: “A carved teak teabox, made as a special gift for Gracie Fields when she paid a visit to Burma to entertain British troops during the Second World War, sold to a Shrewsbury bidder for £130.”
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