These are the days for rattling old moneyboxes and plumbing the bowels of sofas for lost coins. The carpet king, Lord Harris of Peckham, who left school at 15 to take over the family's market stall and two carpet shops, and now as head of Carpetright controls more than 600 outlets, is heading for the saleroom - and likely to do rather better than anyone eyeing up auntie's old Chinese vase. Christie's silver expert, Harry Williams-Buckley, describes the collection of antique silver that he will sell next month as "the rare, the beautiful and the exceptional". The star lot is a Tudor ostrich egg and silver cup and cover, estimated at up to £800,000. The sale should leave Harris, who slipped a few places in this year's Sunday Times Rich List to 357th but still has an estimated fortune of £230m, about £3m richer. Ringo Starr,...
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