TWO wrought iron gates made by the famous Arts and Crafts movement group that crafted the gates at Buckingham Palace sold for £3,100 at auction organised by Halls of Kidderminster and Shrewsbury.
The Bromsgrove Guild gates, sold by their Worcestershire owner, went under the hammer at the auction house's £175,000 sale of antique furniture, ceramics and works of art.
The 6ft 9ins high gates have a pheasant and an owl as the central features of their respective top scrolls. The Bromsgrove Guild, which began in the late 19th century and survived until the early 1960s, manufactured objects in metal, wood, plaster, bronze, tapestry and glass.
The guild's influence was widespread and one of its members was a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage to America in April 1912.
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