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Image: A gold and turquoise ring belonging author Jane Austen, sold for £152,450 – more than five times its pre-sale high estimate of £20,000-30,000. The previously unknown ring was sold by Sotheby's in London by descendants who had looked after it for 200 years. From 2012.