At the auction put the guillotine in France Bashny.Net

In the French city of Nantes at the auction exhibited the guillotine during the Second Empire (period in the history of France from 1852 to 1870). The auction catalog says that the mechanism is in working condition, made of steel, iron, copper and wood.





According to agency AFP, auction will be held on Thursday at the auction house "Talma" preliminary cost of the lot is 50-60 thousand. Euro. Until now, the guillotine is privately owned. As explained by representatives of the auction in Nantes, its owner was a man to whom it was inherited from his grandfather, who bought it in the center of Lyon in the early 20th century. How many heads chopped off the guillotine, remain a mystery story.