A little beauty skips to £24,000 in Gloucestershire
ESTIMATED at £800-1200, this Victorian silver ewer modelled as a kangaroo sold for £24,000 at Chorley's of Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire on October 22 to a London dealer on the telephone who saw off competition from Australia and France.
With marks for Walter and John Barnard, London, 1882, the 8 1/4in (21cm) high jug was once the prope…