FOR SALE (WITHOUT RESERVE)
Persons who have goods to dispose of should be careful how they word their advertisements. Some few days ago a Thames tradesman notified, through the Press, that on a certain date he would sell by public auction — toifliout reserve — a quantity of household furniture (including a piano). In due course the auctioneer solicited offers for the instrument — the cost price of which was about fifty guineas— and received several bids, the highest being £30. The knight of the hammer declined to let the " musical box" go from his possession for that sum, as by so doing he would incur a considerable loss ; and on its being pointed out to him that the sale was announced to be without reserve, he said that 'he didn't mean that the words should apply to the piano at all.' Legal advice, having been obtained, the person who had made the highest bid threatened to take proceedings in a court of law if the instrument was not handed over to him for the sum he had offered, and the dealer was forced to part with it at that figure.
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Observer, Volume IV, Issue 84, 22 April 1882, Page 83
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188FOR SALE (WITHOUT RESERVE) Observer, Volume IV, Issue 84, 22 April 1882, Page 83
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