Sold.
Your number, sir?
Thank you.
Lot 665, ladies and gentlemen.
A papier-mâché musical box in the shape of a barrel organ
Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals
This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre
still in working order
Showing here
May I start at twenty francs?
Fifteen then. Fifteen I am bid.
Twenty, sir, thank you. Twenty.
Twenty-five, thank you, madame.
Thirty. Selling at thirty, then.
Thirty once, twice
Sold for thirty francs
to the Vicomte de Chagny. Thank you, sir
A collector's piece indeed
every detail exactly as she said
She often spoke of you, my friend
Your velvet lining and your figurine of lead
Will you still play when all the rest of us are dead?
Lot 666, then
A chandelier in pieces
Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera
A mystery never fully explained
We are told, ladies and gentlemen
that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster
Our workshops have restored it
and fitted all parts of it with wiring for the new electric light
so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when reassembled
Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago
with a little illumination
gentlemen