Lost trunk – Winnipeg, 1930

Winnipeg Tribune 30 May 1930

[Auction]

Lot B-9060-35 boxes, 2 tin trunks, 1 crowbar, 1 small trunk.  Stored on July 7th, 1923 by the late Mr WE Cutler.

[Wonder what happened to the trunk? Just think what it could have contained – personal papers, fossils?]

George Paulin, Auction, 1815

Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 1 Jul 1815, pg 1

Cabinet and Upholstery Stock,

Household furniture &c

Bell-Street, Henley, Oxon

To be sold by Auction

By Mr. Othwaite

(Under execution, by order of the Sheriff of Oxfordshire) on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th of July, and on Saturday the 8th of July, 1815. – All the valuable, well-selected, and extensive STOCK in TRADE, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and effects, of Mr. George Paulin, Upholsterer, Paper-hanger, and Cabinet Manufacturer, Bell-Street, Henley; comprising a genteel assortment of new and second-hand 4-pst tent; and other bedsteads, with handsome cotton and scarlet Sayes furnitures, in pieces, and made up; window curtains, goose and other feather beds, mattresses, blankets, and quilts; mahogany secretary and book-cases, wardrobes, three-quarter and dressing chest of drawers, elegant loo, sofa, card, Pembroke, and dining tables, cellaret side boards, bed steps, bason [sic] stands, expensive mahogany, japaned, Grecian and other chairs, elegant chimney and other glasses in gilt and mahogany frames, a costly and ornamental cut-glass lamp chandelier, between two and three hundred yards of Brussels, Venetian, and Kidderminster carpeting, excellent assortment of hearth rugs, oil cloths, made-up bed ticks and mattress cases, handsome fringes, laces, lines, &c, between four and five hundred pieces of paper hangings and borders, large assortment of brass work, taxed cart and harness, market cart, useful grey horse, &c, &c.

The unmanufactured stock will be sold in the third day’s sale, on Wednesday the 5th of July (not in the last day’s sale, as before advertised).  It comprises seasoned mahogany in plank, boards, and veneers, wainscot boards, cherry-tree and beech quarters &c &c.

May be viewed the Friday and Saturday before and mornings of sale, which will begin each day at eleven o’clock.

Catalogues (price 6d each, to be returned to purchasers) will be delivered at the Auction Mart, London; at the principal Inns at Staines, Egham, Windsor, Oakingham, Hartford Bridge, Maidenhead, Marlow, Wycombe, Watlington, Oxford, Benson, Wallingford, Reading, and Newbury; place of sale; and of Mr. Othwaite, the auctioneer, Henley.

Sale of land, Acock’s Green, 1884

Birmingham Daily Post, 21 April 1884

Letting by Auction

Acock’s Green – to be let, on building lease, for ninety-nine years, without restrictions, a valuable plot of building land, having 62 yeard 2 feet frontage, to the Yardley Road, between Cottenbrooke, the residence of Mr J Willson, and the residence of Mr Paulin, and extending back to the canal. Area about 5A iR 15P or 25,863 square yards.  This land being near the Acock’s Green Station, where forty-six trains stop daily, is eligible for any class of property and cottages, would doubtless readily command good tenants. (Lot 6)

South Yardley – to be let on building lease, for ninety-nine years, an exceedingly eligible plot of land adjoining the residence of Mr Henry Crane, known as “Broad Yates” having a frontage of 96 yards to the road from Yardley to Stockfield and Hall Green, and continuing an area of 4503 square yards or thereabouts. (Lot 7)

South Yardley – to be let on building lease, for ninety-nine years, an exceedingly eligible plot of land, abutting on Lot 7, having a frontage of 61 yards to the road from Yardley to Acock’s Green Railway Station.  Area about 4157 square yards (lot 8)

The above will be let on terms that will enable lessees to have country gardens without being overburdened with ground rent.

Hendricks & Smith are instructed to let the above by auction at the estate sale room, 1 Newhall Street, Birmingham, at 7 pm on Thursday next, the 24th April.

Particulars and plans may be obtained from Messrs Coleman, Coleman and Springthorpe, Solicitors, 77 Colmore Row (where the draft leases may be seen after the 20th instant); or at the auctioneer’s offices, 25 Cannon Street, Birmingham

Hendricks and Smith’s next sale of properties will take place in May.

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