Ancient Egyptian Cat Sculpture Headed to the Trash Sells for $80,000
By A Mystery Man Writer
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A cat figurine that narrowly avoided being thrown in the trash sold yesterday for £52,000 ($80,000) at England’s Penzance Auction Rooms after it was identified as a 2,500-year-old Egyptian bronze. The pre-sale estimate was a conservative £5,000–10,000 ($7,700–15,400). The seven-inch-tall bust, adorned with gold earrings, decorated the hearth of Doreen Liddell’s home in Penzance, in the county of Cornwall, for many […]
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