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Mind your Manners

ONE of the many satisfactions of writing this column comes when it is possible to weave connections between objects in the different sales or exhibitions that I have to discuss. This week, there has been no need for any weaving, as it was unusually easy to make a link between Sotheby’s online auction of property from the Marquess of Anglesey’s private apartment at Plâs Newydd and Sloane Street Auctions’s live Spring Fine Arts sale, both of which took place last month.

The seat of ancestors of the Paget family since the mid 15th century, the house overlooking the Menai Strait and Bridge was passed

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