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Garden ornament bought for £300 at junkyard to sell for £100k at auction after experts make wild discovery

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A GARDEN ornament bought by a builder for £300 at a junkyard is set to sell for £100,000 at auction after experts made a wild discovery. The 290-year-old Italian marble maquette of Pope Clement XII Corsini was discovered by the eagle-eyed bargain hunter at a salvage yard in Wiltshire. It had come from a country...