In the UK, a 100-year-old Christmas tree was sold at auction for 4 thousand dollars
Kyiv • UNN
A Christmas tree bought in 1920 was sold at auction in the UK for over $4,000.
In the UK, a Christmas tree purchased in 1920 was sold at auction for more than $4,000, CNN reports, according to UNN.
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В In the English county of Oxfordshire, a 31-inch tree was sold at auction, tree, which is more than a century old, with 25 branches, 12 berries and six mini candlesticks was sold for £3,411 ($4,328).
The Christmas tree was purchased by Englishwoman Dorothy Grant in Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England in 1920 when she was 8 years old. Dorothy decorated it with cotton wool to imitate snow, as baubles were a luxury after World War I,
Dorothy took care of the tree until her death at the age of 101 in 2014, after which it was inherited by her 84-year-old daughter Shirley Hall.
It is noted that the release for the auction indicates that the tree may have been made for an expensive London department store. Despite the fact that it resembles the first mass-produced artificial trees sold by the popular Woolworths department store, it is different from the trees that were sold there before, thanks to the red paint on the wood base.
Recall
In the city of Pereyaslav, in the Kyiv region, due to strong gusts of wind, the main Christmas tree fell the main Christmas tree in the park fell down.
