De Morgan tile bought for £8 on a stall takes £3800 at auction

The Tavistock Pannier Market may well see an influx of sleeper-hunters following the canny purchase in June of a piece described as ‘a Cornish tile’.

Bought for just £8, the buyer recognised it on a stall as by the famed Victorian designer William …

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