[higgmeister]

It wasn't a dud for me.   I looked for other articles about the once missing bronze statues and the history beyond it and the other artifacts.   It's amazing they could show up unidentified in an auction after a few hundred years.   It is also good to know that the Victoria and Albert Museum was able to reach the five million pounds sterling to purchase and restore the statues.

I also wonder about the unknown history that let successive kings and queens leave these near priceless art works in various storage locations to fade away.

[SunkenCiv]

The English Civil War had that kind of result, but during the Victorian era the economy was going great guns, and a lot of stuff that had survived got demolished. The pubs where Shakespeare used to eat and drink had miraculously survived the 1666 Great Fire, only to get torn down about 120 years ago.