The original sheet music for iconic Christmas song 'Jingle Bells' has sold at auction for £19,000, 165 years after the festive classic was written. Written in 1857 by James Pierpoint, the song is ...

Pierpont wrote the music and lyrics to "Jingle Bells" in the 1850s, sometime amid his daring deeds on land and sea. It was published in Boston in 1857, originally under the title "One Horse Open ...