Murder weapon has antique price guide of £400
A walking stick used to murder a spy is set to go up for auction with a £400 antique price guide on it.
A £400 antique price guide has been placed on a walking stick that was used to kill someone.
The murder weapon - which was used to bludgeon William Gill to death more than 100 years ago - is set to go under the hammer in a Lyon and Turn bull sale in Edinburgh tomorrow (September 28th), the Press Association reports.
Bedouin tribesmen used the stick to kill Gill - a British spy and multimillionaire explorer, who was working for the British government on a reconnaissance mission when he died - in the Sinai desert in 1883.
An anonymous seller is set to put the piece up for auction.
This news comes after a collection of letters, also from the 1800s, written by poet Oscar Wilde went under the hammer for more than £30,000 earlier this week after they were sold at Bamfords Auctioneers in Derby, beating their previous antique price guide of £10,000.
Posted by Keith Leicester