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Contents from the House of Withnail’s Uncle Monty to Be Sold at Christie’s South Kensington

LONDON.- Paintings, furniture and furnishings which featured in the cult British film Withnail and I (1987) are to be auctioned at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom on Sunday, 31 July 2011. West House was used as the filming location for Uncle Monty’s townhouse in the film Withnail and I, and items including an early Victorian mahogany armchair, a pine library ladder, and a Victorian brass inkstand, form part of The Collection of Professor Bernard Nevill: Property from West House, Glebe Place – a collection of 227 lots, which is expected to realize in the region of £200,000. The sale features a variety of home furnishings, fine antiques and decorative objects with impeccable provenance, at affordable prices