Queen Victoria's stockings sell for £8,000
Published Date:
03 September 2008
A pair of Queen Victoria's stockings fetched £8,000 at auction today.
The black and white stockings were bought for the Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum in Nottingham by David Alcock, whose father-in-law Jack Smirfitt was a curator at the museum.
Mr Alcock, a 52-year-old mechanic from North Wales, saw off bids from as far away as Canada for the stockings, which were discovered in the loft of a former teacher.
The list price in the auction's catalogue at the Mackworth Hotel near Derby was £200.
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03 September 2008 1:04 PM
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