A high tide for Lowestoft with new record for local favourite

Lowestoft porcelain specialist and Suffolk auctioneer Russell Sprake marked 50 years in the auction business last month with perhaps his finest ever sale – and a record price for the factory at auction.

A 9in (23cm) high guglet and a 9¾in (25cm) basin c.1764-5 sold on the evening of October 28 ranked a…

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