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Syd Christmas tree already on eBay

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An artificial Christmas tree which belonged to Pink Floyd songwriter Syd Barrett is being offered on internet auction site eBay - less than 24 hours after fetching £800 in a sale of the star's possessions.

Users of the website have until December 4 to bid for the tree, which was removed from the back bedroom of Syd's house in Cambridge after he died of cancer aged 60 in July.

Visitors were told by the seller: "Today is the 30th November, I was the winning bidder for Syds (sic) Christmas tree, anyone with serious offers please contact me."

The seller did not give a name but said the tree was in Reading, Berkshire.

Syd quit Pink Floyd in 1968 after suffering a breakdown and spent most of the rest of his life as a recluse in Cambridge.

Auctioneers raised nearly £120,000 when selling 77 items taken from Syd's home at a sale in Cambridge on Wednesday.

Ten of Syd's paintings fetched more than £55,000 in total. One - called Still Life with Lemons and Green Bottles on a Shelf and thought to be Syd's last piece of creative work - sold for £9,500. He had initialled the mount and written the date "Jan 06".

Syd's two bicycles - one red and one green - fetched more than £10,000 in total.

A homemade wooden breadbin, which was found with wooden clothes pegs inside, sold for £1,400.