Wally birds and Moorcroft retain star appeal

Topping a 360-lot, £242,000 single-owner collection of Martinware and Moorcroft at Kingham & Orme (23% buyer’s premium) was a Robert Wallace Martin grotesque bird.

Standing 8½in (22cm) tall, it appeared to have no date mark but was an early 20th century piece in…

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