BANK-NOTES IN VASE
MYSTERY UNSOLVED Sold for 35s in a Christchurch auction room, a vase was worth £sl 12s 3d to its owner, says the Press. She received that amount after the auctioneer had deducted his normal commission of Is 6d in the £ on a sale at 355. The sum of £SO was a windfall for her. The vase, blue in colour and narrow at the neck, was unpacked from a case with other oddments by one of the auction room staff and was tagged. The vase was handled with all care due to chinaware, and the employee handled it again when he decided to shift it and other articles to another table more under the eyes of the staff. A woman handled the vase in a careful inspection, and left instructions for a bid to be put in on her behalf up to 30s. In the next hour other callers handled the vase.
Then a dealer ran his expert hands over the piece of china. Turning the vase upside down, he remarked: “It’s not often you find these in old vases.” Out of the neck came a bundle of five 10 notes. The mystery is, who placed the bank-notes in the vase?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 32, 23 May 1947, Page 6
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203BANK-NOTES IN VASE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 32, 23 May 1947, Page 6
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