Bought for buttons, now worth £48,000
Bought for just £40 earlier in the year, two rare bronze buttons designed by Alberto Giacometti for Elsa Schiaparelli hammered for £48,000 at the latest Modern Decorative Art & Design sale at Bonhams Knightsbridge.
Gary Quittenton-Shaw, the managing director of a Derbyshire car seat company, spotted them in a jo…