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    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 7 12:47:40 2020
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    From BBC.com ...


    Star Wars toys dumped in Stourbridge garage fetch £250k
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    A collection of vintage Star Wars toys found in bin bags
    in a garage has fetched more than £250,000 at auction.

    They and other toys were left to an elderly couple, from
    Stourbridge, in their neighbour's will.

    The couple were unaware of the value of the items, which
    sold in total for £410,000, and had arranged for skips to
    throw many of them away.

    They were sold by Aston's Auctioneers in Dudley, West
    Midlands, in its last sale before closing permanently.

    Auctioneer Chris Aston said he did not expect the items
    to fetch so much.

    "The best piece was the vinyl cape Jawa, the guys from the
    desert in the original Star Wars film," he said.

    "Not many of these vinyl cape ones made it on to the
    market, so to find one sealed on the card like the one in
    this collection, we think there is only eight of them in
    the world."

    That item alone fetched £22,000.

    The unnamed couple had invited Mr Aston to look at the
    large number of toys and comics which belonged to Peter
    Simpson, who left his house and its contents to his
    neighbours when he died.

    They had arranged for skips because they had no idea of
    how valuable some of the items were, Mr Aston said.

    He said they were "absolutely delighted".

    "If you inherited a house, plus the furniture in the house,
    you would think the house was the real money, but no,"
    Mr Aston added.

    "The stuff in the house made more than what the house is on
    the market for."

    "The first day I was there I found a rare Batman figure,"
    he said.

    "As soon as I found that, I thought 'well if that is in
    there, there could be loads of gems', so I instructed them
    to cancel the skips.

    "It was our best sale ever in 15 years and also our last
    ever auction as we are now closing the business permanently
    having been badly affected by the lockdown earlier in the
    year."


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