It took a day to wrap up and truck out hundreds of musical instruments now stored in a Surrey warehouse ahead of an online auction.

At the seller91裸聊视频檚 house, an Able Auctions crew sorted and transported some unique and rare instruments including guitars, amps, microphones, horns, harps, banjos, drums, dulcimers, mixers, cases, xylophones 91裸聊视频� you name it, it91裸聊视频檒l be auctioned on Nov. 19.

The 91裸聊视频渓ifetime collection91裸聊视频� is , and it takes some time to scroll through the 448 items.

91裸聊视频淚t came from one gentleman out of his house on one of the Gulf Islands,91裸聊视频� reported Jeremy Dodd, president of Able Auctions.

91裸聊视频淗e was buying from around the world and shipping it to this little island,91裸聊视频� he added. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 quite a collection, and I imagine his shipping costs over the past 40 years were pretty high. That91裸聊视频檚 my guess, probably 40 years (of collecting the instruments).91裸聊视频�

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Someone in the Gulf Islands is selling off a "lifetime collection" of musical instruments with Surrey's .
It takes some time to scroll through the 448 items, as seen below.
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91裸聊视频� Tom Zillich (@TomZillich)

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A 91裸聊视频減review91裸聊视频� of all those instruments is planned Friday, Nov. 18, a day before the online auction.

The pandemic forced Able to hold all auctions online, where they91裸聊视频檒l be forever more.

91裸聊视频淎ll our auctions these days are 100 per cent online, but we have a preview day so people can view the items. It91裸聊视频檚 a COVID thing that won91裸聊视频檛 go back,91裸聊视频� Dodd explained. 91裸聊视频淲hen those first public gathering restrictions were announced in March (of 2020), we basically switched the next day to 100 per cent online.91裸聊视频�

Online is a much more efficient way of auctioning, he added.

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tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com
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