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Antique Auctions in England
Many items from boot sales and small antique shops end up in huge containers bound for the united states or japan. The dealers say it's because many of its antiques were destroyed in world war two. Among the trade there are tales of the newly rich americans looking for family portraits to pass off as ancestors when they go back home. There is said to be a good trade in silver, which may be described as brought over on the mayflower. A german commentator grumbled that napoleon's troops were followed everywhere by a correspondingly warlike band of english antique stealers. And according to mus hill's article, walpole hung his armour on a dark stairway so that visitors
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