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Dartmoor model otters up for auction

The bronze-effect sculpture by Marcus Cornish, commissioned by Prince Charles

Seventy decorated model otters - which have been displayed around Dartmoor for the last few months - are being auctioned online today.


The colourful models were distributed around the moorland and in local towns, with visitors encouraged to try and find as many of them as they could.

Thirty-one have already gone under the hammer in a live auction in Exeter, and sold for a total of more than 40 thousand pounds.

They included a life-size bronze-effect otter commissioned by Prince Charles.

All the money raised will go towards Dartmoor conservation projects.

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