Frog salt cellars leap to great result Down Under

Many of the high prices achieved at last week’s ‘celebrity’ sale titled Bob Hawke & Blanche d’Alpuget: Mementos, Curiosities, Art and Design reflected the impact of souvenir hunters, anxious to own a reminder of Australia’s former prime minister who died earlier this year. But not all of them.

This rare pair of 4in (10cm) high silver and silver gilt salt cellars modelled as anthropomorphic …

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