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Radio Derby,5 mins
Buttons bought for £40 sell for £61,000!
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Gary Quittenton-Shaw from Rowsley bought a box of buttons for £40 and went on to sell two of them for £61,000. They were designed by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti for Italian fashion icon Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s. He's been telling Â鶹Éç Radio Derbys Becky Measures all about his find. Picture from Bonhams.
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