Stan Laurel's letter fails to reach antiques valuation
The antiques valuation was between £400 and £600.
A letter penned by a legendary comic has failed to meet its antiques valuation.
The item - written by Stan Laurel, one half of the famous duo made up of himself and Oliver Hardy - could not reach its estimate of between £400 and £600, the Northern Echo reports.
Written on September 19th 1932 on Laurel and Hardy-headed note paper, the piece was addressed to Laurel's childhood friend Lena Morton.
It read: "I got a big laugh out of you telling about you being my only audience at my little theatre - you must have been bored to death."
But there was some joy at the auction as a note by Laurel's father went under the hammer to the tune of £130.
This comes after an apology letter written by snooker star Alex Higgins, who died in July earlier this year aged 61, had been given an antiques valuation of up to £2,000.
Posted by Keith Leicester