The £30 bottle once thought to be fake is now the real auction deal at £18,000

A Yorkshire collector who bought what he thought was a replica antique bottle at a fair for just £30 has sold it for a hammer price of £18,000 at auction after discovering it really was from the 17th century.

Purchased at the Doncaster Antiques Fair, a subsequent Facebook post led to the suggestion that it m…

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