Another One Of Those 'Good Luck' Stories,

we like so much,

this one concerning two Turkish bottles made in the town of Iznik, Turkey in the 16th-century the bottles have fetched a world record for selling at more than five times their guide price, used to hold wine and water during the Ottoman Empire, Roger Tappin, regional director of Bonhams auctioneers, said the price of the bottles had exceeded all expectations and was 'a new world record', He said they had survived '500 years of being shipped around' and their value was 'terribly difficult to assess because they were almost unique, perfect examples from that period',


Alice Bailey, head of Bonhams Islamic Department, said: 'to find one Iznik bottle of this type from the second half of the 16th century is very rare, but to come across two splendid examples in the same English collection is astonishing', the bottles came to the Copeland family through an ancestor, Leonard Daneham Cunliffe, who bought them from antiques dealer Frank Dickinson from his 104 New Bond Street Gallery in 1919, Mr Cunliffe, who was deputy governor of the Bank of England and co-founder of the Cunliffe Brothers merchant bank, bought the Iznik bottles for £501 10s - worth approximately £11,000 today, so a shrewd buy to say the least!

how much did they go for? one went for £547,250, while the other fetched £301,250, lucky or what?