Attempted is the best way to describe it, as the seller of the first coffin he had on an auction list asked for it back before it was sold, as a relative had died and he needed it.
The latest coffin, complete with a presumably fake mummified body used as a theatre prop, will be one of 685 items up for auction.
The Fortune Theatre Trust announced the theatre's immediate closure in early May, saying it was no longer financially viable.
Last week it announced it planned to sell the theatre's assets.
They will be on display at the theatre tomorrow and Friday, and include everything from a historic electric vibrator to an also historic-looking defibrillator, and the inevitable skeleton.
Posters and props from plays at the theatre should prove popular with lovers of things thespian.
Mr More said he was expecting people would turn up to have a last look at the theatre, which opened in 1974.
