Casket heads north

THE Bourne casket, a Restoration needlework casket that failed to sell when offered by Netherhampton Salerooms earlier this year, has been sold by private treaty to the Lancashire Museum Services.

Funds of £30,000 - the lower end of the estimate when it was offered for sale on April 29 - were ach…

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