Howard comfortably unearthed
Featuring in the same two-day auction as a £7000 cache of Beatrix Potter ephemera found in a Cumbrian Victorian villa which had made national headlines, this less-heralded sofa impressed at 1818 Auctioneers (17.5% buyer’s premium).
The 6ft (1.83m) wide sofa was catalogued as “an Edwardian Chesterfield style settee having floral …