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LAMMERT BROS.
A00003EERS, AffraINEIS AND SUZVIKURS,
Public Auctions-
THE ros
WE Undemikovt. have rocoivod in
to pell by Fable Auction,
0121
TUXSDAY; March 27, 1993, commencing at 2.46 p.m.
as he residence "Clovelly" No. 1, Peak Road
A Large Quantity of Valuablo Hrasobold Furniture,
Couprising..
A Fine Selection of Carved Black- wood-wo,
Teok inteland, Drawing room Suite (eilk tapestry covered), oil paintings, water colours, teiling and tablo fape, milk brocade curtains, brass curtain poles, electrolier, teak bookcases, ela, eto.
Take sideboard with bevelled glass, Dining Table and chairs, dinner Waggons, Tee chest, Ton tables, glass cabinet with glass shelves, Dinner and Top perviven, glass ware, etc., elf
Brass and fron bedstende, double and single wardrobes with Lovelled glass bots, dressing table, marble top saakeland <tc.
Large Satensa and porcelain vas), bronze statum, trase artaments etc.
ote.
Also
Large Axminster Carpots, Pile rug
One Piano by Ester, New York
One Piano by Cellard & Collard'
Ore Victrola XVI
One Lot of Recorde
And
Several Enamelled
baths,
and
porcelain basins, Bath Reom requisites,
Garden seats, Lawn mower, stone
zoller, palms and plants.
On view from Monday the 20th March
Catalogues will be issued.
Terms.-Cash on deliovry.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneera.
Hongkong, March 18, 1922,
a A Undvísigned have received instruc-
Jious to Hell by Public Auction,
од
WEDNESDAY, April 11, 1826, commencing at 3 p.m
ut their Solen looms, Duudell Street. ONE SET OF MINT MACHINERY
This lot comprises a complete set of Miet Machinery capable of producing 100,000 (Ono udred thousand) pioces 20 cent (Twealy cent; coins or 200,000 (Two hundred thousand) pieces 10-cont Ten cent) coins per working day of 10 hours.
(Further particulara and inspection orders may be obtained from Mesars, Gilman & Co., Ltd., or the Under- signed.)
Terms: -20% of purchase menay to be paid on fall of bummer.
Balance to be paid within two weeks of day of sale.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers,
Bungkung, Match 12, 1927.
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BOTTLED SHIPS.
SAILORS SPARE TIME.
HOW THEY SPEND IT. -
If you call at the first duckland public-house you come across-it doesn't matter which one, for they
wore.
-much-reason-to-believe that the bottle was made around the ship as in the possibilities of any other method:
Models of vessels to enter the neck of a quart bottle must be nar- row and short in proportion, but occasionally one sees a larger and
“SALOME.
NAZIMOVA'S DARING VEN-
TURE.
innovator in,ort whose all too short life came to an end after he had completed this series of drawings.
Nazimova has made her most more elaborate. achievement which daring adventure into the picture the patient hands of some old sailor realm with the production of Oschr all have a tall Cape Horner in a took more than one voyage to com- Wilde's "Salonu," weird and on- bottle" somewhere on the bar or plete.
trancing story of the death of Joba I saw one of these in an hotel the Baptist at the beliest of this sucking-room walls-step in and look at it -it-worth-an-inspection-in-Sydney-and-the man who made lovely daughter of Herodias. and the price of a sthall Bass, writes it; it had taken him over two years, The subject is treated with much A. V., Paines in The Navy,
and foolishly he sold it to the pro- reverence anil follows the story as You will see a faithful model of prictor for twenty pounds, who die outlined by Wilde in his tragedy,! a renowned tea clipper fit to grace posed of it in a good market for and the decorations follow the illus- the South Kensingtop Museum, so over a hundred.
trations made for the printed true in detail is it; the blue ocena The hull was three feat in length volume by Aubrey Beardsley, ou and all is there, making a fit pre- and built of teak wood with inlaid sont from a convivial sailor to the white bone ports, taken from the fairest barmaid; for you can be sure buckbone of a shark. The yards
Nazimova takes the view. of that was how it found a permanent and mast tips were also of hone, and home, if it wasn't taken in part fled ebony from an old walking Salome that she was an innocent payment for an old shellback's beer siick entered largely into the ela creature, cruel as were those around score ere he departed dead broke to boration of her deck fillings, Ler in that semi-civilized day, "run the Eusting down" once The most were cut out of pitch piqued that John did not respond tó pine, the standing rigging entirely her advances and urged on to ven- After close attention and much of mandoline A strings, and the geanca by her mother, who had deliberation, you will probably running cordage of plaited silken good cause to bute the prophet, who decide that by some mysterious pro- thread, probably begged from the was loud-voiced in his denunciation! cess the battle grew up around the Captain's wife.
of her marriage with her busband's ahip. Some people do come to that
brother, Herod Antinas ruler of conclusion, and maybe they would Every sail, thirty in number, was Judea at the time of the crucifixion consider that an easier task thin cut from linen, white as sur. of Christ.
The incident of the Dance of building the ship inside the bottle. Every block was brightly polished, which is really what is done.
and the Red Ensign, a most diffi- the Seven Veils is handled dėli- Most sailors of the old school cult job in itself, Buttered at the cately by Mme. Nazimova, who has spend their spare time at sea shippeal together with the pilot jack achieved the almost impossible feat model making. They have in mind at the fore truck, and the Company of being "clothed in nudity."
Nuzinova's strange.beauty lends some fact tea clipper or some weil houseflag on the main must. known Australian wood ship, in A splendid model she was, one itself well to the impersonation of which they served as a deck boy or which a sailor could delight in Saline.
The story deals with Hend's in apprentice, and the model to them studying, so true in shape and when complete is the "old packet equipment was she, and it was only fatuation with his step-daughter come to life again."
lock of money that compelled the and his pledge to her that she may man who made her to sell, for she ask for anything in his kingdom if Patting ber in the bottle is the had bean his companion in various she will danca for bim at. his ban- best way of keeping the dust from stages of construction for many squet. She is so lovely, she has in clouding the brightness of ber tek dog watch on every sea. flamed the passion of many of the wood fittings and the glistening
longing eyes white enamel of her ports and yet time to mat and rug isking, others who look on with displaying her graceful speed lines to fancy needlework, while many do she dances.
She has heard John's sonorous and towering, roasts to the world; creditable wood carving. so a quart bottle is begged from the At a hospital aid auctiont sale invoice from the well in which he is. stoward and layered on the insido Valetta, Malta, a year or two ago, confined outside the banquet hall, with a putty ocean painted blue I saw a bedade rug knocked down and she has become fascinated by
its wondrous-endances. with white tops to the racing sens, for fifteen pounds,
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The more ambitious, construct a It was the work of a sailor, and She forces the Syrian who guards wooden Eddystone Lighthouse and must have been a long time in the the well to let har seo the prophet, various units of the local fishing making, for it was unique in that who repulses her advances, and feets the more to show the gallant it was made entirely of threads then having danced for Herod, she demande John's hand as the price ship in her element, but that tends taken from old flags..
to overcrowding in a quart bottle Flag bunting is nearly indestruc- of her dance and isn't altogether a success.tible by ordinary wear, and must The King bags that she will tako Then the model with maste and have made an idoal rug, so soft and anything in his kingdom.rather yards all carefully placed lying-flat jet extremely tough is it, and in than that which she asks, but she pa deck and connected with sowing this case thread by thread was pull holds him to his word, and when he Coad stays down through holes ed from the ship's worn-out flags sees her with the prophet's head be bared in the vessels atem in-insert-and-sewn on o linen backing orders the soldiers to alay hor
Mitchell Lewis is the Herod and ey and firmly fixed in the putty, Three years it had occupied in the and a dash or two of white paint making, but the result justified the Rose Dione plays Herodias Nigel applied to represent the "bons in time and patience required, da Bralier, who distinguished him her teeth.
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