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Jul 2022
Harrogate jewellery expert sells rare brooch for £80,000
Harrogate jewellery expert, Susan Rumfitt, has sold a rare brooch at auction for around three times its guide price.
Ms Rumfitt, who has written a column for the Stray Ferret and is an expert for the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, sold an intricate micro-mosaic theatrical mask brooch by Castellani of Rome for £80,600.
The piece had been listed under a guide price of £20,000 to £30,000.
Ms Rumfitt said:
Made in around 1850 and depicting Bacchus, the brooch reproduces part of a 3rd Century AD mosaic now in the Capitoline Museums portraying theatrical masks which decorated the Thermae Decianae.
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Susan RumfittFor the past decade Ms Rumfitt has focussed on her showroom in Harrogate. Her return to the auction house is in collaboration with Dore & Rees auctioneers in Frome, Somerset.
Ms Rumfitt said:
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