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 30 francs?
Fifteen, then?
Fifteen I am bid.
20 sir. Thank you.
20?
Twenty-five. Thank you madam.
30.
Selling at 30 then.
Thirty once, twice...
Sold for 30 francs to Vicomte de Chagny.
Thank you, sir.
A collector 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 that figures in that famous disaster.
Our workshops have restored it and fitted parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of how it may look when reassembled.
Perhaps we may even frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentleman!