Yorkshire Evening Post: Royal sale doubles estimate

A handwritten note by Britain's Queen Mother requesting Dubonnet and gin with instructions for an alfresco lunch in the sunshine fetched 16,000 pounds at an auction at Colchester in Essex. The note was the star attraction at the sale of Royal ...

The auction lasted more than 10 hours and took nearly double the pre-sale estimates. Auctioneers Reeman Dansie of Colchester in south-eastern England said bidders had flown in from around the world, particularly Canada and the United States. Among ...

Throughout his half-century of loyal service to the royal household, William Tallon kept every little memento, never wanting to put a price on the memories each held for him...But yesterday the public did just that at an astonishing auction of ...

A collection of letters, photographs and artifacts related to the British royal family sold for nearly $900,000 Saturday, an auction house says. The Reeman Dansie auction house said the auction, which included items that had belonged to former royal ...

Hundreds of mementoes that give a unique below stairs insight into the Royal household went under the hammer and fetched hundreds of thousands of pounds...At an auction in Colchester, Essex, it sold for the kind of money he could only have dreamed ...

The auction, run by Reeman Dansie in the unlikely setting of an industrial estate in Colchester, Essex, was being held following Mr Tallon's death last November The top-priced individual item was a letter from the Queen Mother instructing Mr Tallon ...

0pm UK, Saturday July 05, 2008 Hundreds of unique Royal mementoes have gone under the hammer for tens of thousands of pounds. One of the letters up at auction One item, a letter from the Queen Mother instructing one of her servants to pack some ...

Poignant letters Diana, Princess of Wales wrote to one of the royal family's most faithful servants will be auctioned today with a wealth of mementoes from the monarchy...Collectors paid thousands of pounds (dollars) Saturday for letters from ...

Collectors have paid large sums for letters from members of the British royal family, including a note from the late Queen Mother Elizabeth telling a servant to pack bottles of gin and Dubonnet for an outing. The note sold for 16,000 pounds (US$32,...

Letter from Queen Mother asking her servant to 'pack some gin' is sold for £16,000 A letter from the Queen Mother instructing one of her servants to pack some Dubonnet and gin, "in case it is needed", has been sold for £16,000...A total of 644 ...