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A young King Charles sculpted this ‘unique’ pottery goat 55 years ago — now it’s set to fetch $12,000 at auction

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Goat status achieved.King Charles’ ‘unique’ school project from more than 50 years ago — a hand-painted pottery goat — is set to fetch an estimated $12,000 at auction.

The colorfully decorated ceramic animal is thought to be the only sculpture ever created by His Royal Highness, back in the 1960s when Charles was attending Cambridge University — experts say that the future monarch may have found inspiration in the goat mascot of The Royal Regiment of Wales.The com-bleat-ly forgotten collectible item became the prized possession of a family overseas many years ago.

It was gifted to Canadian Raymond Patten on his 21st birthday, by his great aunt who worked as a cook at Cambridge.Patten, now 76 and living in British Columbia, reached out to Hansons Auctioneers in the U.K.

to alert them to the existence of the rare artifact, which is expected to spark an international bidding war when it goes up up for auction next month.“My Aunt Nellie, Helen Patten, gave me the goat on my 21st birthday on June 22, 1969.

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