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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Desertau, post: 9793003, member: 86775&quot;]Shipments came into Butterfields in large wooden tea boxes. These boxes had metal reinforced edges and metal corners and were lined in a silver foil and pink tissue the boxes had a very distinctive smell from the tea and then old estate items from their repurposing. I also remember they had stencils in black ink with Chinese lettering. My grandfather took us to his garage a vast space to a 5 year old filled with item awaiting transit in and out of the auction house, inside Butterfields the hallways and stairwells littered with theses large tea boxes filled with unwanted stuff, old vertical toasters, odd medical devises tons of antique kitchen utensils, ephemera… I had a Geo Taylor signature on a contract letter from Butterfields I later sold at Bonhams and Butterfields same basic auction house then at a different location, discarded first and later sold for $11k.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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