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A dog collar that belonged to Charles Dickens has fetched $11,590 at a New York City auction.<\/p>\n
The leather and brass collar is inscribed with Dickens’ name. It had been estimated to sell for $4,000 to $6,000. The buyer’s name was not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n
The collar was auctioned Tuesday at Bonhams New York’s sale of dog art.
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<\/br>Like many Victorians, the author of "David Copperfield" and "A Tale of Two Cities" was fond of dogs.<\/p>\n
Last year, an ivory-and-gold toothpick that belonged to Dickens sold for $9,150 at auction.<\/p>\n
— Associated Press<\/p>\n
Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Photo: Dickens’ dog collar. Credit: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A dog collar that belonged to Charles Dickens has fetched $11,590 at a New York City auction. The leather and brass collar is inscribed with Dickens’ name. It had been estimated to sell for $4,000 to $6,000. The buyer’s name was not immediately disclosed. The collar was auctioned Tuesday at Bonhams New York’s sale of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}