Doctor Who Daleks sell for more than £2,000 in Tetbury

The Daleks were snapped up by a collector at John Rolfe Auctions in Gloucestershire Sunday

A collector has snapped up two life-size Daleks at auction for more than £2,000.

The red and gold replicas of the Doctor Who aliens went under the hammer at John Rolfe Auctions in Tetbury on Sunday, with a guide price of £500-£800.

A film collector bought the gold Dalek for £1,150 and the red one for £1,100.

Auctioneer John Rolfe said he "relied on nerds" to come up with the estimates for the Doctor Who memorabilia.

The fully working human-sized models, from the long-running TV series, had been stored in a living room in Gloucestershire.

Elsewhere in the auction, a jacket similar to the one worn by Colin Baker and a scarf like the one worn by Tom Baker sold for £170.

In Doctor Who, the Doctor first encountered the tank-like aliens from the planet Skaro in 1963

Before being brought to Mr Rolfe's auction house, the Daleks had belonged to "quite an eccentric gentleman".

"He had been storing the Daleks in his mother's living room and she was sick of the sight of them," Mr Rolfe said.

"She said they had to be gone."

The red Dalek may have formed part of a long-running Doctor Who exhibition at Longleat House, Wiltshire, which ran for nearly 30 years from 1974.

It is thought the gold version, equipped with a seat and controls for its weapons, may have appeared in the relaunched Doctor Who series in the early 2000s.