LEFT LUGGAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 142, 15 June 1917, Page 7

LEFT LUGGAGE.

AN INTERESTING SALE. The mat.net for speculation was no doubt responsible for the. large number of bidders at the sale of lost luggage yesterday. The New Zealand I'"xpres« Co. bad collected all manner of things into the Court Lane sale room, and as these passed individually through the auctioneers' hands, a crowd of some hundreds made wild guesses as to tbe value of the mysteriously shrouded goods. Padlocked trunks, with unknown contents, were sold at sums varying from lialf-a-sovereign to two pounds, and the interest in the sale was diverted only when a buyer opened bis mystery trunk to disclose clothes, portraits, babies' outlits, and an occasional concertina. Oil paintings were sold in bundles of half-a-dozen at prices that would have broken the heart of tbe nrtist. Photographs of dead aunts and grandmothers were cleared at a shilling a piece, while mysterious cases, from which protruded wigs, fancy costumes, fishing rods, and dolls, were eagerly purchased by bidders whom tbe auctioneer heralded as "sports." Within a few hours 500 lots were disposed of 1 1 varying prices.