2005-02-17

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A print by Prince Charles went up for sale at a tsunami aid auction in Ireland this week. But did not make its reserve price.

"We are disappointed it did not sell but that is the way it goes ... It is no reflection on the man whatsoever," Fergus Ahern told Reuters. "It is the luck of the draw."

Other donated paintings sold for a total of about 300,000 euros (160,000 pounds) but bidders at the Royal Hibernian Academy shunned the 30,000 euro reserve price tagged on "Windsor Castle North Aspect", a rare lithograph by the heir to the British throne.

Charles, whose interests include architecture and organic farming, originally gave the lithograph to an earlier Ahern charity auction, but the buyer decided to re-donate the piece.

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