… when two regular furniture salesmen could just walk into Harrods and buy a lion cub to fool around with.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms-piPxEzbk]
Wikipedia has a page about the story/events here. At £3500 / USD 6000 today not exactly cheap and apparently not that uncommon back then, according to the 45-minute full length documentary (which actually paints a slighty different, more realistic picture – worth watching)