A TEN DAYS’ SALE

By Ben Greenman

from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled

By direction of Arthur Hawes, the whole of the contents of 1100 Fanshawe Street, also known as the McAllanan Mansion, are to be sold at auction by the law firm of Doolittle, Pinback, Boiler and Talby on February 4 to 7, inclusive, February 11 to 15 inclusive, and February 18 and 19, the sale thus extending over ten days. The contents include many fine pieces of tableware of the 18th and 19th centuries; bronze statuary; about 1,000 ounces of antique silver plate; finger paintings including examples by Chris and Perry; the important and well-known library of about four hundred volumes that includes historical manuscripts, anthologies of comics, a history of the American theater, letters from prominent foreign politicians such as Aki; a jar of eels, black; a blue jay, out of focus; a profile of a man drawn with a metallic magic marker on a piece of brown leather; a field of mallows; a blank piece of square paper, a second blank piece of square paper, a third and fourth blank pieces of square paper, and a fifth and sixth of same, the full set of which can be arranged into a perfect cube that can be placed in the front lawn of the mansion with nothing in it.