Auctioneer's Clerk Notebooks

• Reference:GB 241 D1/1246
• Dates of Creation:1859 - 1884
• Physical Description:
  11 notebooks size roughly A6.

• Scope and Content

  Notebooks contain record of buyers and prices paid.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  In the late nineteenth century, at a farm sale, it was customary for the auctioneer to be hired from Kirkwall and for a local man to act as clerk, with responsibility for keeping a record of buyers and prices paid, and to collect the money. These notebooks were written by Peter Leith of Appiehouse, Stenness, who often acted as clerk between 1824 and 1904.