Devonshires salvage space in Chatsworth attic
AT £5.26m hammer, Sotheby’s three-day dispersal from the attics, stables and stores of the Derbyshire seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, was the ultimate in a ‘dusting down’ sale.
And, as a family the Devonshires, had plenty of surplus. Over the years the stores have filled, not …