Interestingly, in the opening sequence of the 1971 Wilfred De’Ath documentary, Daphne du Maurier is sitting at her desk typing. Items of furniture from that sale were marked with a Phillps label. The ‘Kilmarth Sale’, at which many du Maurier related items were sold after Daphne had died, was undoubtedly held by Phillips (later Bonhams) at their auction rooms in Par, the village just outside Fowey and only a couple of miles from Kilmarth. One of the chairs is numbered 205 and has a label stating that it was sold at Phillips Auctioneers. She loves these chairs, having owned them for many, many years, and was keen to know if the provenance could be confirmed. She believes that her chairs are the ones that once belonged to Daphne du Maurier and her husband, Lieutenant-General Browning. The programme resonated with one of our Daphne du Maurier enthusiasts, who also owns two of those Coronation guest chairs. Daphne du Maurier at Kilmarth, sitting on her Coronation guest chair
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