Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — A Pawnbroker’s Hoodoo. [ARTICLE]

A Pawnbroker’s Hoodoo.

‘‘One of the hardest things to realize on,” said a pawnbroker to a Chicago Tribune reporter, “is a violin. I never make much of an advance on such au instrument. Not long ago a man brought in one and asked what I would give him on it. I told him 15. He turned white. He asked me if I knew what that violin was worth. I told him I did. I knew it was worth about SBOO. I told him that it did not look any better than a violin that was worth 110. No one but a musician would ever know the difference, I told him I could never make any one but an old musiciap believe it was worth any more than a poor violin. I’d rather advance a man $lO on a sls overcoat than $5 on a SIOO violin, unless I happened to know where I could get ( a purchaser for the violin. I might' sell the overcoat for what I advanced on it, but I never could get the money or anything near it on the violin. A violin in a pawnbroker’s shop Is a hoodoo.” .