A Car-Boot customer couldn't believe his good fortune when he turned up this old plate at a South Lakeland Car Boot Sale. He managed to purchase the plate for the sum of £20, The plate which measures slightly more than 2 feet wide, is in fact a rare 19th century piece from the Leeds Pottery, known as a Burmantoft's Faience Plaque,
The Plaque was entered at the 1818 Auction House at Crooklands, where at an estimate of £4-600, the item eventually sold to a private collector for the astounding sum of £7000, after a lively bidding session between several telephone bidders.
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