DEMOLITION SALE OF OLD SYDNEY HOME
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CRec. 9 pjn.) SYDNEY, April 22. Women fought and cried over wrought iron and brass door knobs, doors, and even blocks of •tone, when building fittings from Anerley, an old Sydney home, recently went up for auction. Demolition workmen said that two women had a battle royal over one door knob.
“The loser broke down and • cried,” they said. The 123-year-old convict-built [ home, in the fashionable suburb i of Edgecliff, is still being demol- ■ ished, but the workmen claim that souvenir hunters are doing t most of their work for them. L Offers for the fittings are pouring in.
Doulton chimney pots are bringing offers of as much as £2O each. The fun started as soon as the sale opened. “Women bought lumps of cedar to make small tables and lamps. The cedar, some of it pretty rotten, brought £35 a 100 super feet. “They even bought rotten timber covered with french scroll work’ “Some of the stone was sold for £2 10s a piece,” workmen said.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28259, 23 April 1957, Page 7
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