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Daily Mirror
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Levi Winchester

Wooden chair bought for just £5 in junk shop sells for £16,000 at auction

A seller is quids in after a wicker chair they picked up in a junk shop for just £5 sold at auction for £16,000.

The shopper found the piece of furniture in Brighton, East Sussex, but didn’t realise it had an unusual - and very valuable - design.

She got in touch with a valuer who told her it dated from an early 20th century avant-garde art school in Vienna, Austria.

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