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An attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC, which had an asking price in the region of £10,000 at the show staged by Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown.

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The show, which ran from July 3-7 in Forge and Lynch’s gallery in Pall Mall, London, featured a group of antiquities from the collection of Sir Christopher Cockerell (1910-99) who was a collector and English engineer best known for the invention of the hovercraft.

The 10½in (26.5cm) amphora had an asking price in the region of £10,000 and sold to a private collector in London.