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  QUEEN'S HISTORICAL HOSIERY SOLD     
  A pair of Queen Victoria's black    
  silk stockings have been sold for   
  more than a thousand pounds.        
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  Alan East from Staffordshire bought 
  them and said they'd go on display  
  at his pub in Chjadle.              
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  He paid £1,127 - nearly three times 
  the original estimate for the       
  historical hosiery.                 
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  Queen Victoria reigned in Britain   
  from 1837 to 1901. When she died    
  her stockings were won as a raffle  
  prize at a society fete.            
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