A group of her creditors bought it for a low price at a hastily arranged auction sale.
The auction sale was prohibited in the hall by an order of 1828.
And that, he said, is the beauty of the auction sale.
An auction sale of town lots was held on October 15, 1878 with a total sales of $6,190.
Further, the library bought about 60,000 volumes at the auction sale.
He noted auction sale results tend to dip every seven years or so.
It was the largest auction sale of a single collector held this century, and made seven million pounds.
The auction sale in 2004 took five days.
The remaining stock had been greatly reduced to sell but was not sold at the auction sale.
By then, they'd found the wheelchair in the basement and the hospital bed, which had gone unsold at the first auction sale.
