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Precious papers up for auction

Newspapers from the 19th Century are among the items to be auctioned by Grice and Hunter in Haxey Memorial Hall today.

The items are a full year’s bound editions of Epworth Bells and Isle of Axholme Messenger first published in 1894.

The newspapers, together with other items have been donated by Mr. and Mrs. J. Newstead from Belton.

Other unusual items in the sale include a mounted piece of shrapnel from the German invasion of Scarborough in 1914.

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