Restaurant Auction Brings Crowd

A longtime Dayton restaurant, the Stockyards Inn, held a liquidation auction of furniture, decorations and antiques.  Among the items sold was an old painting of a hog:

Wilson Bunger drove to the auction from New Madison in part because he knew a century-old painting of a hog that hung on the wall of the restaurant would go up for sale. The 82-year-old Darke County resident said the hog in the painting belonged to his grandfather, who sold breeding stock. His grandfather had commissioned an artist to paint the hog and to have it hung in the restaurant sometime between 1910 and 1920 as advertising of sorts for his business, since a working stockyards was located across Springfield Street from the restaurant for much of the 20th century.
Bidding on the painting reached $4,000. And Bunger outbid everybody.
“I wanted to keep it in the family,” he said.

The auctioneer's photo doesn't look like the photo of a $4,000 painting:

Another interesting item was a photograph of the old stockyard across the street:

Look at all those Herefords.  You won't see that high of a percentage of Herefords at any stockyards today.   Finally, the oldest kegerator I've ever seen:

Looks like you'd be cutting ice in the winter and storing it in the ice house to use that thing.