The auctioneer says the buyers 'seemed to think they are actually Egyptian'.
The couple bought them at a country house sale for about £300 and thought they were 19th Century models
A pair of stone sphinx statues that a couple bought for £300 and put in their garden for 15 years have sold at auction for £195,000.Auctioneer James Mander said the price was reached because the buyers, who have remained anonymous, "seemed to think they are actually Egyptian".Mr Mander, whose firm is based near Sudbury in Suffolk, said the couple had decided to sell the "heavily weathered" statues of the mythic Greek/Egyptian creature as they were moving house.
"All the time they sat there and they [the sellers] had no idea what they had in their garden," said Mr Mander. He said the "unassuming" metre-long statues were "just amongst" other items in the couple's garden that were sold in the online auction on Saturday.
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