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Wed 02 Feb 2011Locket commemorating soldier killed in Rising fetches £850 at auction
A GOLD locket commemorating a British soldier killed in Dublin during the 1916 Rising was sold at auction yesterday for £850 (€1,003) – more than double its estimate of £400.
Sworders Auctioneers in the southeast of England said the “incredibly poignant” locket had been made to commemorate Guy Vickery Pinfield.
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