And finally… record lot
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Last month, a rare 14th-century French gothic cabinet set a new record for the most valuable work of art ever sold in Scotland.
The carved ivory cabinet sold for £1,455,000 at Lyon in Turnbull in Edinburgh.
Bidding for the piece began at £50,000 and lasted for ten minutes, The Courier reports.
The piece, made in around 1330, had been showcased at Tornaveen House in Aberdeenshire for four centuries.
The previous record for a single lot sold at a Scottish auction was the £1 million bid for a bottle of The Macallan 1926 sold by Whisky Auctioneer of Perth in February this year.
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