A DUSTY old book donated to a Teignmouth charity shop has fetched nearly £40,000 at auction.

Staff at Oxfam, Den Road, are celebrating the huge windfall, which took even the experts by surprise.

A reserve of £2,000 had been placed on the 1882 volume of 44 photographs of Fijian islanders and it was hoped it might go a bit higher.

But when the bidding at Bonhams in London finished on Tuesday, Lot 16 was knocked down for a staggering £37,200.

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