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Eric Morecambe's trademark glasses fetch £20,000 at estate auction

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Eric Morecambe's trademark glasses sell for 20,000 at auction.

Personal items and showbiz memorabilia from comic's home in Hertfordshire were put up for sale.

Auction comes more than 40 years after comic's death in 1984 and included more than 700 lots.

Other lots included telegrams from the late Duke of Edinburgh and Margaret Thatcher .

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71

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formal

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English

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42

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