Big bidding for a small prayer book: Hebrew manuscript takes five times estimate
An 18th century copy of Tikkunei Shabbat (an amalgam of Hebrew prayers and devotions for the Sabbath) sold for £57,000 to an international phone bidder at Hansons on September 5.
The sellers, retired teachers from Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, watched the auction in Staffordshir…