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Lot Forty-Seven

A Barred Plymouth Rock rooster in a grey windowpane check flannel suit with lavender shirt and cream pocket square, seated in a burgundy velvet chair in a wood-paneled auction saleroom, holding a numbered paddle, gilt-framed oil paintings on the walls behind him, warm amber spotlight overhead

The paddle rose once, with a certainty that had nothing to do with the object and everything to do with what the object had survived. He had never been to sea. He suspected that was rather the point.

19 April 2026