Felix Dennis's golden Rolls Royce Silver Spur, which he bought when he made his first £1m, sold for £15,500
More than £1m has been raised in an auction of the possessions of the late publishing millionaire Felix Dennis.
Portraits of the Rolling Stones went for £3,500, his golden Rolls Royce for £15,500 and an elephant statue for £2,800.
More than 2,000 lots from Dennis's 12 homes were assembled in a marquee on his Warwickshire estate.
Proceeds will go to a tree-planting charity set up by the founder of 60s counterculture magazine Oz.
The three-day sale finished on Thursday in the village of Dorsington, near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Organisers said the auction raised "well in excess" of £1m. A final total is not yet known.
The water feature Dark Planet fetched over £15,000 in the auction
A series of paintings of the Rolling Stones sold for £3,500
The Ascot Cup, made in 1864, sold for £67,000
All the proceeds of the auction will go to Dennis's estate. The major beneficiary is The Heart of England Forest Charity.
In 1989, he revealed an ambition to create a 30,000-acre contiguous forest in the heart of England, from the ancient Forest of Arden to the Vale of Evesham.
A black and white check elephant statue raised £2,800 at the three day auction
David Bliss, from the charity, said: "It was everything that I wanted it to be because it brought so many local people together.
"It was more like a party than an auction and Felix loved a party."
Dennis died at his home in June 2014 from throat cancer aged 67.
Felix Dennis wrote the first review of Led Zeppelin's self-titled debut album in 1969
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