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Auctioneer Seeking Treasure, Finds Skull Instead

Much like Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet exclaims, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.”, Connecticut auctioneer found himself in a similar face-to-skull encounter recently. Perhaps not quite as dramatic has the play Hamlet, it is not every day that an auctioneer finds human remains among the treasures being inventoried for auction. Continue reading