I love December auction sales.

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I was at an auction sale a week ago. It was poorly attended and the people that were there were not buying. The auctioneer was getting ticked off with the low or no bids. The owner's home was being auction at 1pm. The sale started at 10.30 and he seemed to be in a hurry to get things moving.
He wanted to know how people wanted to bid, on each piece or a lot?
First up was this GE frying pan, no bids. He kept yelling to the auction helpers, keep adding till its gone.

 

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I love December auction sales

A tea kettle was added, no bids.

 

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I love December auction sales

Keep adding.

 

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I love December auction sales

Adding the coffee pot got a dollar bid. They sure didn't skimp on cords back then.

 

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I love December auction sales

This was what I was waiting for, the Sunbeam toaster. It is so cool and works so well. It makes the toast smell and taste more, toasty. I bid $3.00 and got the whole works.

 

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I love December auction sales

You could tell the auctioneer was fed up with the low bids and just starting selling stuff in huge amounts. People were bidding on one thing and leaving the rest. There was a huge pile that was for free. I got this breakfast set. I love things that come in the original boxes.

 

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I love December auction sales

It is so cute.

 

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I love December auction sales

This trunk was on it's side and it didn't really appeal to me. When they sat it upright and opened it, I had to have it.

 

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I love December auction sales

Bidding started at $60.00, nothing. $40.00? I bid and the auctioneer said, SOLD.
I love it.

 

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I love December auction sales

I assume there were male and female versions of this trunk? I think mine is male? As large as it is, you really can't pack a lot into it. A couple of suits and it would be full. The drawers are nice but wouldn't hold much more than ties and socks. The drawers all have ties sewen in the keep everything in place.
I can't help but wonder how many trunks like this would have been on the Titanic?
How many would a socialite have and where would you keep them in your cabin?
A lady must have had dozens?

 

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I love December auction sales

Unfortunately someone had painted the trunk on the outside. I have looked all over for a name. I felt something under the paint and started to sand lightly.
Does anyone know anything about the Regal Trunk Company? I have Googled and I can't find anything.
I was disappointed the trunk didn't have a smell to it. I thought it would have that great dry, dusty attic smell? It is odour free. I thought there might be an old coin or cufflink left behind,nope.

 

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I hate it when auctioneers start to put stuff into "lots".

We went to an FDIC auction where they had a ton of stuff from failed banks. I wanted to buy a new desk for my office here at home. They had desks everywhere. When he got to the place where the desk I wanted was he said "And what is my opening bid for the next FIFTY desks?" And sure enough, people started bidding.

What would ANYONE do with fifty desks?

 

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That breakfast set is GREAT! It looks like something on a first class 60's train or liner.

I think the trunks got unpacked when you boarded, obviously you had a maid or valet, and then sent off to the hold for the rest of the journey (unless there was space in the cabin - I've only sailed on newer ships from the suitcase era). That's a nice once, there are ads for similar in National Geographic from the 20's. My parents had one which loaded from the top (my dad bought like six from his job for next to nothing and they were used for storage in the basement, clothes, model cars, supporting desks) - the top loader was the fanciest and we think the whole lot had been to China in the teens or 20's for an expedition to collect samples (my dad worked in a museum). It had a series of trays which were clad in fabric which nested in the top and the uppermost one had a lid. The others were just lined with paper and bare inside.