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A wooden chair picked up in a junk sale for just £5 has made its lucky finder more than £16,000.

The eagle-eyed shopper did not notice its unusual design of the wicker chair until after she had carried it home from the junk shop in Brighton, East Sussex.

She got in touch with a valuer who was stunned to discover that it dated from an early 20th century avant-garde art school in Vienna, Austria.

The sought-after piece of furniture was designed by esteemed Austrian painter Koloman Moser in 1902.