Previews become results – a look at how featured lots fared
▪ An ivory cup-and-ball game at which Jane Austen was said to be very skilled, featured in ATG No 2269, was not sold in the Sotheby’s English literature sale of December 13, but the following lot, a letter to her sister Cassandra, was bid to a double-estimate £120,000.
It was one of a series of letters that Jane wrote during the months of October 1800 to February 1801…