Comedian Alan Carr is set to keep the only lot which failed to sell at an auction of unwanted items from his recently purchased Scottish castle - a concrete cow sculpture.
It was revealed in February that the Celebrity Traitors winner had bought Ayton Castle in the Scottish Borders.
Hundreds of "residual" contents - unwanted by both Carr and the former owners - were sold at auction on Sunday.
But auctioneer Jim Railton said the cow - part of a wider collection of sculptures - had failed to find a bidder and the comedian was set to keep it as a memento.
Image source, RailtonsImage caption, The concrete cow - part of a wider collection - was the only lot which went unsold
The auction took place at Ayton Castle on Sunday after viewings on Friday and Saturday.
It contained a huge range of items including furniture, paintings and textiles.
The top price on the day was £24,000 for a five-seater Bentley Mulsanne.
However, among the highlights were the lots containing the Northumberland folk art creations from the Branxton Cement Menagerie.
They were created by a retired joiner in the 1960s to entertain his disabled son but grew to a huge collection and became a "much-loved visitor attraction".
It was sold and relocated to Ayton Castle in 2021 but its pieces have now been auctioned off to the highest bidder - apart from the cow which Carr is set to keep.
Jim Railton, of Railtons Auctioneers, said it had been a "very busy day".
"Seven-and-a-half hours of selling non-stop and we only had one item that was unsold, which is quite a good record," he said.
Image source, Railtons AuctioneersImage caption, The Branxton animals fetched about £28,000 at the auction
He confirmed that the item which could not find a buyer had been the cow from the Branxton Menagerie.
"For some reason we couldn't get a bid for it," he said.
"So Alan Carr, who has bought the castle, is going to keep it as an ornament or a memory of all the animals that were at Branxton and then went to Ayton.
"He's going to keep the one cow and enjoy it as a memory of the Branxton animals that resided there for a little while."
Image source, Anne BurgessImage caption, Carr bought Ayton Castle in the Scottish Borders earlier this year
Railton said that the sculptures had made about £28,000 overall
"I was quite pleased with the Branxton animals because that was a bit of an unknown quantity, how well they'd do," he said.
"But it seemed to have taken off and it sold well."
Overall, he said the sale should produce about £100,000 which would go to the owners who sold the castle to Carr.
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