LETTER    LOTS    REGISTER
ESTATE AUCTION • 12 NOVEMBER 1997

THE FINAL
SALE OF
SLAB INDUSTRIES

All remaining assets of the company will be dispersed. No reserves. No sentiment.

FROM THE FOUNDER

A letter I never wanted to write.

Dear colleagues, clients, and the few who still cared,

Twenty-two years ago we poured the first slab. We believed concrete could be honest. That raw material and brutal proportion could outlast fashion. We were wrong about longevity, but right about honesty.

SLAB INDUSTRIES will cease operations at midnight. The presses stop. The cranes will be sold. The name will be auctioned as a single lot. There is no successor. There is only dispersal.

Everything that remains is listed here. Bid if you wish. Or simply witness the end of an argument we once thought mattered.

— E. K. Voss, Founder

LOTS

12 LOTS • NO RESERVE
LOT 01

THE ORIGINAL MIXER

1955 BHS twin-shaft concrete mixer. Still turns. Scored with 41,000 hours of honest work. 2.8 m³ capacity.
£18,400
LOT 02

BOARDROOM SLAB

Single 2400 × 1200 × 180 mm poured-in-place concrete table. Top surface polished to mirror. Twelve steel legs.
£27,500
LOT 03

TYPEWRITER & FINAL MEMO

Olympia SG3 with the last internal memo still in the roller: “We are out of time and out of excuses.”
£3,900
LOT 04

THE NAME

All rights to “SLAB INDUSTRIES” and the registered concrete-slab device mark. Transferable worldwide.
£64,000

Register to attend.

Preview begins 10 November. Bidding closes 12 November at midnight. Attendance strictly limited to 48 persons.