Props, costumes and other items from the hit TV series "Downton Abbey" sold for £1.7 million ($2.3 million) at a London auction, six times the pre-sale estimate, Bonhams revealed Tuesday.

The "bell wall", the servant's call system that appears from the first series to the last, proved to be the prize item, selling for an eye-watering £216,300 against an estimate of £7,000.

The Bonhams sale, which featured everything from dresses to a car and a clapper board, ran online from August 18 until Tuesday, ahead of the UK's September 12 release of a third film -- "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale".

The movie brings to a close the British saga, which included six highly successful seasons on the small screen.

Another sale highlight was Lord and Lady Grantham's 1925 Sunbeam saloon car, which stil

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