Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — An Extraordinary Auction. [ARTICLE]

An Extraordinary Auction.

An extraordinary auelion is about to take place at Pesth at the palace of the late Count Moritz Esterhazy, for the purpose of the disposal by public sale of his immense collection of cigars, which is valued at $60,000, this being the reserve price put upon it. It does not consist of boxes of cigars, but of single cigars of every kind and quality. Some people collect stamps, others coins, others again buttons, some again collect snuff : boxes. But the late Count Moritz Esterhazy devoted himself throughout his long life to collecting samples of every kind of cigar from every part of the world and from the cheapest to the most expensive.