76.52 x 64.14 cm. (30.1 x 25.3 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

The vervel, which dates back to the 1600s, is believed to have belonged to Thomas Playters, the first Baronet of Sotterley, near Beccles in Suffolk. It was dug up in a field in Wix, near Harwich ...

In 1761, the first baronet, Sir Charles Sheffield, sold Buckingham Palace (then called Buckingham House) to King George III, for £21,000. It was his to sell as the illegitimate son of the 1st ...