Last week we reminded you about the auction that Lancaster County held on Saturday, September 17. You could have bought your Crown Vic police car for as little as $800 or as much as $4,000.

The auction was held at the Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center and attracted in the neighborhood of 200 or so people. Of those who registered to bid on the hundreds of used and new items put up for auction, they had the opportunity to buy at incredibly distressed prices when something captured their fancies. Pictures of some of the items appear later in this article.

Know those metal detection arches you pass through at airports, some municipal buildings, etc.? The winning bidder walked away with one for a buck.

If you were one of the several printers who attended, you probably walked away with unopened boxes paper for 30 to 50 cents on the dollar.

There were dividers for desks; scads of office furniture pieces; scores of office chairs and 59 flat screen computer screens. Dell computers with screens, keyboards and mice sold for as little as $80. We bought a 1970s vintage IBM Selectric typewriter for a buck. Do not know what we will do with it (or if it works) but it was just too cheap to pass up. It represented a slice of history.

Here are some of the sale items:

A thousand or so bra’s

and hundreds of new and used (but laundered) wool blend blankets

and some of the 59 flat screen monitors

and chairs as cheap as two for a buck

and the chairs just kept coming

and a soft ice cream maker

and traffic signals, reinforced wire cable

and brushes for your streetsweeper

and a device to cut holes in your drivewayand vehicles

plus a dump truck or two, salt spreader boxes, about eight or so police cars and a three wheeler cart.

In case you missed the article last week, here is the link.

The auction items came from about 12 municipalities (including Columbia) in the County.