ShareTweetRelated Articles For the record, stenographers put down their pens at the Old Bailey Assange bid for Australian senate Nuclear veterans lose damages bid Suggested TopicsSotheby'sSupreme CourtPaul Cheston07 February 2012A peer began legal action today against a leading auction house for ?450,000 damages after they dismissed his historic 500-year-old family heirloom as a mere copy.Lord Coleridge says a Sotheby's expert was negligent and incompetent in her valuation of a golden chain of office dating back to Henry VII.Instead of recognising its true worth she thought it was a 17th-century copy worth just ?35,000, the High Court heard today.In fact the Coleridge Collar was described in court as "a magnificent work of art in solid gold and a unique piece of English history." It had been handed down through the family since 1873 by John Duke Coleridge, the last Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.The collar is similar to the one worn by Sir Thomas More in the famous portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. In 2005 Lord Coleridge called in Sotheby's after falling on hard times.But ed hardy t-shirts, the High Court heard, Elizabeth Mitchell, a senior specialist at Sotheby's and a specialist in the medieval and Renaissance works of art discount true religion jeans, particularly jewellery was unimpressed. The following year it was bought at auction for ?35,000.But two years later it was re-valued by Christie's, who recognised that the collar was genuine. It was re-sold at auction in 2008 fetching ?313 cheap true religion jeans,250. In the High Court case, which started today and is expected to last five days, Lord Coleridge is suing for damages for the vast undervaluation. The case continues.TweetComments Related Topics Articles?

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