Novelty silver kangaroos help Fairfax auction jump to $1.74m at Leonard Joel

Antiques owned by the late businessman James Fairfax caught the eye of buyers with a set of four Victorian novelty kangaroo salts among the highlights at the auction in Sydney.

The set, by John Samuel Hunt for Hunt & Roskell (1856) and estimated at Aus$7,000-10,000, was ha…

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