… 2006), p. 263–84. Public sales of goods were increasingly made up of household goods after decease. As the household consumption of paintings, mirrors, porcelains, and books expanded, these hard-to-price objects became a non-negligible … in Tunbridge Wells during the tourist season. It is however important to complicate how sociability and pleasure consumption were tied in the auction house, just as they were in watering places. Spas attracted shady entrepreneurs and … in England: Money as Muse, 1730–1900 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011). Berg, Maxine and Clifford, Helen, ‘Selling Consumption in the Eighteenth Century,’ Cultural and Social History (vol. 4, n o 2, 2007), p. 145-170. Cowan, Brian, The …