00:00I'm David Lay, an auctioneer. I started my business when I was in my 20s and I'm still
00:14going. We've been asked to sell the contents of this museum. This museum has been going
00:20a long time, but the owners have decided that the conditions here are not really right for
00:25storing rare valuable artefacts and they've decided they haven't got the money to invest
00:33in new climate control cabinets and that sort of thing. So they've put it on the market.
00:39They've tried hard to sell it as a going concern, but they haven't been successful. So I'm going
00:47to sell the contents and then they'll sell the building as a vacant premises. We've got
00:53some coal here from the Titanic that has been scraped up from the ocean floor. That's caused
01:00a bit of interest. There are American buyers who seem to like that, but there are 700,
01:07800 lots here covering such a range of things. Lots of people like ship's lamps, lots of
01:16people like ancient ingots of tin and copper that have been taken up from the ocean floor.
01:25There's an awful lot here. There's a piece of rope from the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's flagship.
01:33That will make quite some thousands, I think. It's all online. The auctioneers are Lay's
01:40Auctioneers of Penzance and the sale is a two-day sale this Wednesday and Thursday.
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