Posted on 12/12/2004 1:33:43 PM PST by wagglebee
A stone marking a pet cat's grave fetched more than £200,000 at Sotheby's yesterday after experts said it was a 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon carving.
The relief depicting St Peter was found in a salvage yard 20 years ago by a stonemason, Johnny Beeston, who took it back to his home in Dowlish Wake, Somerset, where he and his wife Ruth decided it would make a headstone for their cat Winkle.
After Chris Brewchorne, an amateur archaeologist from the town, realised its significance as he walked past, experts identified it as probably part of a Christian cross from 900AD.
Yesterday an anonymous bidder paid £201,600 for Winkle's gravestone, four times the pre-sale estimate.
Rest in peace, dear "Viking Kitty."
The Navy recruiter keeps wondering why an activated AF Reservist keeps calling....
I told him it was an '80s thing... ;>)
/john
The navy recruiter in Bel Air, MD is paying me to use my tagline. :-)
You also missed out on the ghost.
/john
That is why it sold for such a high price.
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Kitty Ping List alert!
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Really? I have a sticky bun that's a dead ringer for J-Lo's butt.....
Maybe I should check all the rocks in my backyard.
C A T is a delicacy served in many Chinese Restaurants. With the auspicious stone holding the C A T down in the soup, they will make their $360,000 back in no time.
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