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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21940, 29 April 1933, Page 3

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The Morning Tost gives an explanation of the phrase about “ hearing a pin drop.” Many years ago it was customary to hold ship auctions at Lloyd’s Coffee House on ToWer Hill, in London. Instead Of a hammer, a pin was thrust into a lighted candle, about one inch from the top. The last bid made before the pin fell out of the melting tallbw was accepted. When this oritical stage in the “ candle auction as they were then called—was reached, a deathlike calm came over the assembly, to enable those present to hear “the pin drop.”