A sale of the contents of one of Scotland's historic mansions has raised £100,000, half of which will go towards turning Selkirk's The Haining into a new cultural centre.
The contents of the Palladian mansion went under the hammer in a one-off event at McTear's Auctioneers in Glasgow, with a painting by Charles Oppenheimer of his house in Kirkcudbright selling for £19,000, an 18th-century marble console table selling for £9300 – almost 10 times the original estimate – and a painting of The Deposition by Renaissance artist Vincenzo Corsi being bought for £3400.
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