The Barnes Unit of the Deaccession Police, having failed to stop
the entire move of the museum to Philadelphia, is
now protesting the recent sale, at the famed Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, of "156 lots of around 430 objects that had belonged to [Albert] Barnes and his wife Laura," including "furniture, clocks, textiles and porcelain objects," for a total hammer price of $98,000. One attendee described it as "minor material—the cleaning out of an office," an office whose contents, they will have you know, were surely held in the public trust.