Early American teapot sells at £460,000 as vendor makes huge return on £15 purchase

A previously unrecorded teapot attributed to a pioneering American porcelain factory sold at a Woolley & Wallis auction today for £460,000. The vendor of the teapot, a private collector from south-west of England, had bought it recently in the Midlands for just £15.

The bidding at the auction in Salisbury opened at £10,000 but rose quickly in increments of £5000 up…

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