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Ancestral treasures go under hammer
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TWO of Scotland's greatest ancestral homes are emptying their
attics - selling off everything from Old Master paintings to ceramic
washbasins.
Scone Palace, home of the Earls of Mansfield and ancient seat of
Scottish kings, is auctioning family items which have languished
under dust-sheets for years and date back centuries.
They range from candelabra bought at the court of Louis XVI by the
2nd Earl of Mansfield, to antique silver, furniture, clocks and
porcelain.
At Blairquhan Castle in Ayrshire, which doubled for Balmoral in
the hit film The Queen, the latest of the Hunter Blair family to ...
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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