garden furniture auction

not your typical garage sale. buyers got the chance to bid on items at the historic clarence cook residence known as the marks estate in nuuanu. nat auction sound 27:50 the owner is losing the

home to foreclosure, so much of the contents was auctioned off today. original art pieces, antique furniture -- just some of the items for sale. douglas himmelfarb, who lives in the home, says items up

for bidding is worth 2 to 3 hundred thousand dollars. 33:49 "an auction is generally a buyers market. you go to an auction and buy and you cherish it or you're a buyer and turn around and

flip it. so i am hoping people do get some fair bargains here."34:04 himmelfarb also claims to have an authentic rothko art piece worth up to 40 million dollars. that item was not up for sale today but he says he

hopes to sell it for what it's worth -- sometime