A JAR of glass eyes, a pair of stuffed guinea pigs and a 19th-century dentist’s chair went under the hammer as a Victorian museum held the ultimate closing-down sale.
It was a case of “everything must go” at Shambles Victorian Museum, in Newent, Gloucestershire, where 2,400 weird and wonderful items were being auctioned off.
The Victoriana has been collected over the past 40 years by Jim Chapman and his wife, Holly, who closed the museum last November because it was no longer financially viable.
The museum’s contents will be sold over the next four days and are expected to fetch between £150,000 and £200,000.
