The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-20
MERRY TINE
!. AT The SALE
Purchasers and Curiosity Seek
Il crs Mike 'rrod l'ratt's Castle
Halls Together.
VISIONS or BRAVE KNIGHTS

i ayere. these medieval days. Pratts
= Castle, Oh the summit OF CANDLES filil'
would have presented a picturesque scene
Yesterday. Knights Of old, with clank
i,,e armors, would have calamity elbowed
far ladies'. and ''merry" bidding would
have been carried ON for possession Oh
some trinket or piece of brio -brac, 10
adorn the home or person of the favored
one.
AS these are modern days, when knights
OF old appear only in zenda stories ana
art galleries. the castle was, Derforce,
crowded with up.to- date twentieth CEN
tury fair ones. who trod, perhaps ungal-
Y ln11tly.S s,ponr the trains and toes of other
eager fair ones, In their quest for things
that spoke of other days.
@ at rescmbled n party ruthlessly des-
pooling the pyramids of their glory, IN a
Pickwickian sense. In other Gays ~
y might have been a battle royal between
!. the' knights of one house against those
n OF another the victor to take. the Spots.
y G But Auctioneer Valentine and his as
z sistants represented the lords or the cas-
tic. and nothing left or was taken away
for which there was not Il piece OF gold
Of silver. or greenbacls left as a guatan-
tee of good faith.
3i5r-7 10 DIVERSION IN VIENNA.
Besides those who went to the sale in
order TO enrich themselves in this worlds
goods, there were many lookerS-on IN
Vienna, in the shape Of curiosity seekers
and Others who sought to gaze upon
secret passages and closets and whose
delight is to breath the atmosphere OF
y-gonc days and live for the nonco
In the enchanting presence of things
3erstwhilc hidden from the vulgar gaze OF
the ploheian world.
Streams OF people poured into the old
castle all morning, and long before the
sale started up at 1890 O'Clock, the dun
geon had been explored, the secret pas
sage leading into the tower had b-en
.pecrcd into. tho halls and ancestral cham
bers had been trod and the view from
the windows across Chesterfield county
and far5down the James had been enjoy
ed. and when the Jolly Valentine with his
gavel, got to work the following articles
were disposed of, leaving plenty OF stuff
for the sale to-day:
THINGS DISPOSED OF.
n ,tl,e park room'--A pair OF old
fashioned chromos in gilt frames, 30
cents, p. NJ. Fry; an old-fashoned oil
painting, small, 80 cents. Nj. Fry;
mahogany dining table. five feet square,
$3.50 Mrs r. G. Wight; walnut loil-top
desk 81 bid; mahogany celarettc. black
marble top, s45, bought by a lady whose
name was not divulged; poker set, red,
white and blue chips stacked III stand
ilbidding started by lady at 90 cents,
Sis, T. NJ Fry: small framed photo
igraph OF the castle, % cents; modern oak
folding bed, with hair mattress. $50, Mrs.
Gibson; large old-fashioned mantel mir
ror. gilt-dccornted frame, S1i; Dixie An
q tique Furniture Company: carpet chair,
81, Mrs. p. ]. White; walnut cellarettc,
marble top, sos, Mrs. Robert Christian
(somebody bid $3.50, and the auclioneer
remarked: TOO late; you'll never get
MARKEDLY; four plush chairs Sl4o bid;
brass fender, S3.75. Mrs, P. J. White.
Hall-Sofa and one chair. $3.50 each;
SILT owl. is inches high, $725; nat-rack.
So
Brc-a-brac, ctc.--Twelve small pieces,
80 cents. Mrs. Lumpkin; nine pieces, $1.3O,
Mrs. Gordon; brass parlor kettle, 81. u.
NJ. Council: brass lantern, Si.15, Mrs.
Lyons; pair candlesticks Ccandelabra), SO.
p. NJ Fry; pair old-fashioned antique
mirrors one without stand, 81. p. NJ. Fry.
bronze statue of Jupiter, 80 inches hign
$3.50; small statue of Venus, Sl.25, p. NJ.
Fry; five pieces bric-a-brac, 81, Mrs.
Brauer; Esmall jar and stand S. cents.
Mrs. p. ]. White: four vases, ten inches
high so cents each. Mrs. Lyons; two
small glass vases and glass bell, 10 cents.
Mrs. Richards; rare china bell, deco
rated with long-biil.Gd. blue backed birds,
50 valuable Mrs, .CoTpick would trust no
one to wash it, s9.25, Mrs. Bowers; terra
Gotta owl, u inches high, Sl.25 Mrs
Hutchinson; solid silver top cut glass bot
lie, So cents. Mrs. Wingo; brass collar
once worn by Newfoundland dog owned
By the MnNos, 60 cents. IA
FIGURES WERE LOW. @
The prices were not prncey. and had
the original owners known Of how low
some of the articles were valued they
would have stamped their feet in indig- I
milton.
While the sale was going on the all
dience INDUCED III q great deal of con-
vorsation. which reminded one of the
performances at the metropolitan opera
Al times Mr.. Valentine had to beseech
his audience 4? give him n chance to
say something. 1t was all In good hui
NOR however, and those who bought and
those who looked on were perfectly sat
isfied,