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Mansion content Hermitage Hexham amounted 300,000 at auction.
Items in the sale Hermitage House in Anderson and Garland in Westerhope.
Auction fever before bargain hunters bid to take items home with a country house.
A total of 1,500 items from the 18th century remains Hermitage Hexham in Northumberland were sold more than four days a home auction Newcastle Anderson Garland.
The mansion of 25 rooms was the home of the family Morant 1922 and little if anything has been cast, turning the home into a time capsule.
After the death of the last member of the family earlier this year the contents of the house that time forgot were sold, raising nearly 300,000.
Anderson Director Andrew McCoull Garland said the interest and the response was overwhelming He was country house sale fever because the country house contents did not come on the market so long in this area.
Many people were not regular auction buyers but came because they wanted a piece of the Hermitage and the four days of the sale were phenomenal.
The diaries of the First World War the family head, Brigadier General Hubert Morant who were the subject of a series of two days in the newspaper, were estimated at 800- 1200, but is 5.800.
They were purchased by Durham County Records Office and will be made available Mornat Brigadier public ordered the 10th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry who fought at Ypres, the Somme and Passchendaele.
A diary of a German officer captured by the battalion in August 1916 and translated Mornat Brigadier, sold for 420 compared to the estimated 50- 100.
The dairies are accounts of life written first-hand in the trenches from the perspective of a senior officer said Mr McCoull.
Morant family paintings were snapped up by a distant relative in Devon.
But Mr McCoull said that the last day of the sale laid the biggest surprises.
It was an attic sale of the remaining contents of the house after the main elements were proposed in previous days.
Many batches were boxes of items priced as low as 10.
But the last day raised around 100,000 as many items went much more than the original estimate.
A 19th century rocking horse in bad condition, estimated at 100- 200, sold for 1,900 A 19th century chair, also 100- 200, 1100 fetched.
What happened was a mass of private buyers for attic sale and was determined to come up with something from the Hermitage, said Mr McCoull.
It was a fantastic sale with people climbing almost themselves to buy.
In a sale of vintage non-Hermitage vehicle, which belonged to the late Roley Foster Ryton in Gateshead, a van Jowett 1933 presented in the paper that has been used in several films sold for 3,600.
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