BARONET'S STALL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 52, 24 November 1937, Page 3

BARONET'S STALL

Otu Own Correspondent.)

Sells China at Caledonian Market EIGHT SHILLINGS' CAPITAL

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LONDOISr, Oct. 27. At a stall in Caledonian Market London 's famous openair bartering placo, stands a baronet who hopes tr make suffieient inoney to re-purchase Jiis ancestral honie. He is Sir Jolm Stu-=*-rt Kni]], who sells china ornanie.tts, grotesque niaslts and delicate pieees of glass. Sir Jolm tells how he came to trado In. the market. "A year ago I was n,. against it," he said. "I had a sinai':'} antique shop at Brighton, bn+ it j ra.s »*uining me. J nofc afford to keep going any longer. fo I packed 'a}, m y few belongings and canie to London. "When I arrived I had exactly cight saillingg in the world. I sj^ent tho mor-.

uing feverishly ransacking junk shops xor bargains. Finally I spent • tive of iuy elght shillings on a stock of china. With tho remaining three shillings X rented a stall at the Caledonian Market and set up in business. "My luck was in. Bv the end of the day 1 had sold my tive shillings worch of cliina for 25/-. Since then I ha^o never looked back. ''I spend a good deal of time pottering ai-ound London looking for> bargains, and studving arfc in the London \ niuseuni. This all helps me, althouglt my experience as an amateur collector o sists me more tlian anything else. ' ' Entil the stall became known Sir J ohn had to fmd other means of eking out a hazardous existence. On Su.ndays he used to sweep the roads in Chelsea. "I 'm pvond of that," he said, ' ' wlien I think of the life of luxury I nsed to lead. My parents had plenty of money at on» '