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Prolific collectors Austin Smith and his late partner Margaret Harkins accrued more than 1,000 dolls over more than seven decades. One item from the collection near Bath went for £15,000.
Austin Smith and his late partner Margaret Harkins covered the shelves of their large home near Bath, Somerset, with more than 1,000 dolls after they began collecting in 1949