LONDON - Props, costumes and other items from the hit TV series "Downton Abbey" sold for £1.7-million at a London auction, six times the pre-sale estimate.
The "bell wall", the servant's call system that appears from the first series to the last, proved to be the prize item, selling for an eye-watering £216,300 against an estimate of £7,000.
The Bonhams sale, which featured everything from dresses to a car and a clapper board, ran online from August 18 until Tuesday, ahead of the UK's September 12 release of a third film -- "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale".
The movie brings to a close the British saga, which included six highly successful seasons on the small screen.
Another sale highlight was Lord and Lady Grantham's 1925 Sunbeam saloon car, which still runs, and sold for £172,500, against a pre-sale estimate of £30,000.
The dress worn by Lady Mary, played by Michelle Dockery, at her wedding to Matthew Crawley sold for £21,760 while a walking cane used by Maggie Smith's character Violet Crawley went under the hammer for £28,160.
The clapper board used in the production of the film "Downton Abbey: A New Era" sold for £9,600, with the auction realising £1,735,744 in total.
The proceeds from the sale will be donated to UK children's charity "Together for Short Lives".