£6,600 at Dorset auction from skip treasures (From Dorset Echo)

£6,600 at Dorset auction from skip treasures

8:50am Sunday 6th December 2009

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A COLLECTION of African tribal artefacts, which at one point were in a skip heading for the dump, have sold at auction for £6,600 in Wareham.

The artefacts, including a witch doctor’s necklace and a wooden doll, came close to being lost forever while their owner was moving house years ago.

Auctioneer John Condie said: “They varied from African ladies’ and children’s necklets and anklets, which had been given to the man in lieu of collection monies, to a witch doctor’s necklace, a wooden doll and a small Matabele tribal pillow.”

Mr Condie said the owner had hoped for between £50 and £100 for the lot.

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