Bidders lose their heads over French royal keepsakes
FRANCE: Knitting was a great leveller in the 18th century, it seems. An ivory pair of knitting needles, said to have once belonged to Marie-Antoinette, sold for €26,000 at Piasa (17.94% buyer’s premium) sale or royal memorabilia in Paris on May 21.
Yet one of the last sounds to have reached the Queen’s ears may well have been the clicking of cackl…