APOLOGY TO OLYMPIC
Auctioneer’s Unhappy Task “I feel I owe the Olympic an apology before starting my undignified labour,” said Mr. Arthur 11. Knight, of Knight, Frank and Rutley, who began his work of selling by auction the contents and equipment of the famous 46,000-ton liner at Jarrow-cn-Tyne last month. Even the cold, passionless way <n which the contents of the liner were parcelled out into 4456 lots could not conceal the fact that another queen of the sea was doomed. “I have in my time sold many a happy and historic home,” continued Mr Knight, “and to-day it is my unhappy task to perform the last rites on this magnificent ship which has been for many years the home of the gallant crew who sailed in her.” Pannellin in the captain’s sit-ting-room fetched 55 guineas, and panelling in the gymnasium 19 guineas
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 79, 27 December 1935, Page 9
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