A chair JK Rowling sat on while penning her first two Harry Potter books has sold for £278,000.
The 1930s oak chair was one of four chairs donated to the then unknown writer for her council flat in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1995.
She wrote Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets while sat on it.
It was bought by an anonymous private buyer for $394,000 (£278,000) at the Heritage Auctions sale in New York on Wednesday.
The seller, Gerald Gray, from Worsley, Greater Manchester, said the sum was much higher than he had hoped for.
"I plan to donate 10% to JK Rowling's charity, Lumos, because that's what she did in the first place," he said.
He bought the chair in 2009 after his daughter, a Harry Potter fan, saw it on eBay.
The chair has been auctioned twice before - once by Rowling in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
Before she donated it to the Chair-ish a Child auction in 2002, she painted on it: "You may not find me pretty, but don't judge on what you see.
"I wrote Harry Potter while sitting on this chair."
The chair is accompanied by a signed letter "by Owl Post" describing its history.
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