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…