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...Much of its membership sauntered out of Burke’s Peerage: the original list includes three dukes, nine earls, six viscounts, three marquises, 14 lords and 38 knights and baronets....
...It seems miles away from life among plants, weeds and squirrels, the level at which English gardeners are most at home....
...Highlights: Among the stars of this sale is a silver carriage clock made by Breguet in the 1870s for the Marquise de Bethisy....
...They fall under Tahiti’s dominion but lie a staggering 900 miles from the mother isle. Despite the intervening century, following Gauguin’s trail to the Marquesas remains a gruelling undertaking....
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