# Unusual legacies at Oxfam

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/06/16/unusual-legacies-oxfam/
- Published: 2010-06-16T16:55:43+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Having just featured the story about [the bet from beyond the grave that could net Oxfam £300,000 or more](https://fundraising.co.uk/oxfam-could-win-100000-wimbledon-legacy-donor039s-bet),
I thought I’d share a few of the more unusual legacies that Oxfam has received.

Each year the charity receives about 600 legacies, worth around £10-11 million per
year. But some of these are rather unusual. They include:

* A pair of gold teeth and a dentist’s chair from a former dentist;

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* The royalties from a number of books and plays, including Doctor Finlay’s Casebook,
which was on TV from 1962 to 1971;

* A letter written by Florence Nightingale, which was sold for several hundred pounds
at auction;

* Some racing greyhounds;

According to Oxfam, “the most expensive shares left to us was a holding of shares
in the original Woolwich Arsenal Football Club. The shares had been overlooked in
1920 and were traced through four subsequent estates. Each share was worth £6,965
when finally sold in 2009”.

What is the most unusual legacy that your charity has received?