Cafe serves up a treat.MEMORABILIA from a former haunt of Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf Noun 1. Virginia Woolf - English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941) Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, Woolf and Winston Churchill sold for up to ten times their estimated value at auction. Bidders battled it out for trinkets and furniture from London's Cafe Royal at the sale at Bonhams Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. The firm has London salerooms in New Bond Street and Knightsbridge. in Knightsbridge. The most popular items were the pictures and chandeliers which have adorned the walls and ceilings of the elite haunt through its 140-year history. The only item which flopped was a boxing ring used to entertain guests during black tie events. The ring, estimated to be worth pounds 4,000 to pounds 6,000, sold for only pounds 456. |
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