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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":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Nr3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767816,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666689\/revisions\/767816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}