Charles Dickens’ Desk Takes £430K in Charity Auction
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 by magenta 0 comments to this post
Charles Dickens’ desk and chair took in a massive £430K in funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital, by charity auction last week.
The lot was priced at under a tenth of that amount.
The mid-19th Century mahogany desk and walnut chair were used by Dickens when writing Great Expectations and some of his later works.
Jeanne-Marie Dickens (widow of the writer’s late great-great grandson Christopher) donated the items to auction for the charity, Great Ormond Street; Charles Dickens was a friend of the founder and spoke at its first ever fundraising dinner in 1858.
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