First edition of The Hobbit fetches almost £60k at Duke s Auctioneers, Dorchester
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First edition of The Hobbit sells for almost £60k at auction
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The Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace (currently closed for renovation work) © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020
The surveyors in charge of the Queen’s vast art collection have been made redundant as part of a cost-cutting restructuring of the Royal Collection Trust (RCT). Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen s Pictures and Chief Surveyor, and Rufus Bird, Surveyor of The Queen s Works of Art, will leave the organisation under a voluntary severance programme initiated in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The trust looks after more than a million objects held by the Queen as sovereign.
“Following a restructure that was necessary due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, 130 roles at Royal Collection Trust are to go by the year, including that of the Surveyor,” says a RCT spokeswoman. According to the