Three Art Nouveau items rescued from a derelict building in Glasgow in the 1960s have sold at auction for more than £6,000.
The copper plate and two plaques were found in a skip outside an Alexander "Greek" Thomson building in the city's Stanhope Street. C27000 Copper
The Talwin Morris designed pieces, from the late 19th century, were salvaged by an architecture student.
He sold them last week for more than 20 times their estimated value.
The former student, who is now in his 60s and does not want to be named, held on to the items for more than 40 years before selling them at McTear's Auctioneers.
He said he only expected them to sell for "a few hundred pounds at best".
"It was a lecturer at the Art School who told us that various buildings in Glasgow were about to be demolished and asked some of us to survey the buildings," he said.
"I went down with some fellow students to survey the Thomson building in Stanhope Street and on one of our visits we arrived to find that everything was being stripped out and thrown into a skip.
"That's when I asked if I could take the plaques and finger plate. I'm so pleased I rescued the pieces."
Talwin Morris was one of the leading Glasgow illustrators of the late 19th century and was a business acquaintance of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
He worked for publishers Blackie and Sons for a number of years and it was in the company's "Greek" Thomson designed headquarters in Stanhope Street that the auction items were discovered.
Alexander "Greek" Thomson was an eminent 19th century Glasgow architect and architectural theorist who was a pioneer in sustainable building.
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