Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1903 — Tricks of the Auction Room. [ARTICLE]

Tricks of the Auction Room.

Tricks of trade are many, but a young husband who has just started housekeeping has discovered a comparatively new one of which he will fight shy in the future. He wanted a big leather covered chair for his den, and hied him to one of the auction houses, where he found the very thing. The auctioneer started the bid at three dollars, and for a couple of dollars more it was knocked down to the householder, who proudly ordered it carried to his domicile. He has been showing it off with a million-dollar air and his chest away out. Yesterday a man came to upholster some furniture and he was promptly led to the new chair. He examined it densely and then remarked—- “ What did you pay for it?” “Five dollars.” “Swindled, by gum! Why, that old chair ain’t worth four bits. - Some second-hand dealer got stuck on it, covered it with oil-cloth at forty cents a yard and sent it to the auction house. See—there's the original old leather under the new covering.” The chair is now used to stand on and hammer nails.

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