3 months ago 04th Sep 14:00
Britain's Queen Victoria's stocking have sold at auction for a staggering £8,000.
The black and white silk stockings, which bear the royal crest, fetched 40 times their list price when they were bought by David Alcock.
Alcock, a bidder from North Wales, bought the legwear for Nottingham's Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum - in honour of his late father-in-law Jack Smirfitt, who was a curator at the museum.
He said: "I am over the moon. I was wary that they may go for such a high price but we were fairly determined.
I am over the moon. I was wary that they may go for such a high price but we were fairly determined.
"We were fortunate enough to get them and the family will be really pleased."
Museum curator Helen Brownett added: "They were probably made in Nottingham or Derby. It was really important to keep them local and where the public can see them. If they had been bought by a private collector the public wouldn't see them."
Pensioner Mary Youings decided to put the stockings up for auction after keeping them in her loft for decades.
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