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"auctioneer" Definitions
  1. a person whose job is to direct an auction and sell the goods
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Billy Long, a Missouri Republican who's a former auctioneer, took the microphone to talk over her in characteristic auctioneer style.
Whisky Auctioneer, an online auctioneer based in Scotland, announced the sale on Monday and expects the collection to fetch more than $10 million.
" Mr. Edmeades, she said, "taught me that you can be a good auctioneer by acting like one, but you'll never be a great auctioneer unless you are one.
The auctioneer — a teacher — sometimes held a whip.
An article last Sunday about training to be an auctioneer misstated the surname of a vice president and specialist in Latin American art at Christie's who is also an auctioneer.
They had an auctioneer selected, but the auctioneer told them that he wasn't a "car guy" and couldn't distinguish differences between the collection, Matt Murray of IronTrap Garage told Business Insider.
ACQUIRES COLLECTOR CAR AUCTIONEER LEAKE AUCTION COMPANY * RITCHIE BROS.
Shad Hassen, the auctioneer, calls the sale a "cracking result".
"It is a very emblematic piece," said auctioneer Gregoire Veyres.
The auctioneer raked in more than $2 billion that year.
Suppose, she countered, she were to become an auctioneer instead.
He spoke in the quick, clipped manner of an auctioneer.
She also serves as an auctioneer for the auction house.
Louis Sr. was a fine art and antique furniture auctioneer.
The premium at Whisky Auctioneer, by contrast, is 10 percent.
I am a specialist, ambassador, negotiator, manager, dealmaker and auctioneer.
With an auctioneer, the better you do, the better they do.
"I'm happy for you, as well," the auctioneer, Oliver Barker, said.
As the bidding hit $17 million, the auctioneer realized the mistake.
Antinozzi reportedly pretended to be a slave auctioneer during the simulation.
The clock was purchased through Dreweatts 1759, a fine art auctioneer.
Charlie Ross (right) has worked as Gooding and Company's auctioneer since 2003.
About 20 people stood around in the drizzle listening to the auctioneer.
There, on the stage, was white auctioneer Alan Wheeler, gavel in hand.
"There's no buyer's remorse," the auctioneer, Dennis Alestra, announced through a loudspeaker.
There was no auctioneer available to drown her out that time around. .
It's not the first time the auctioneer has dealt in royal clothing.
"As an auctioneer it's always wonderful to handle living history," he said.
How important is it for an auctioneer to inject the fun factor?
Check out the letter ... penmanship clearly mattered to him, and online auctioneer Paddle8.
Inside the hall, Mr. Trump conducted himself like an auctioneer and celebrity emcee.
Carnival is hiring an art auctioneer to work aboard a luxury cruise ship.
These days, Swann is the world's largest specialist auctioneer of works on paper.
Whatever his limitations ... they aren't enough to keep him from his auctioneer duties.
In January, the recently merged online auctioneer Auctionata Paddle8 filed for bankruptcy protection.
That online auctioneer, Richard Pinedo, is scheduled to be sentenced on October 1.
A Christie's auctioneer later made similar assertions during the auction, the papers said.
His father was an auctioneer and trained his young son in the skill.
Our other friend is an auctioneer, and he always volunteers to do the announcing.
Tash Perrin is an auctioneer at Christie's, the largest auction house in the world.
The same day, the Auctioneer at Pirates of the Caribbean was apparently decapitated, too.
Billy Long (R-MO) decided to do a quick comedic turn as an auctioneer.
The auctioneer who handled the eBay listing said he could not discuss the outcome.
Gone are the days when the auctioneer would take the entire 300-lot sale.
A Nebraska area auctioneer sold off 1503 older model John Deere tractors in 2019.
The auctioneer was surprised when he opened it to see what was for sale.
Parcel after parcel was sold to the rhythmic bantering of the auctioneer until voices in the back of the room began singing, "People got to rise like water … " The singing became louder and louder until the bidders could no longer hear the auctioneer.
Billy Long who used his experience as a former auctioneer to drown out her protests.
In 1968, he took a job as a cattle auctioneer for the Billings Livestock Commission.
A good friend of mine is a professional auctioneer, has been for almost 20 years.
Mr. Labarbe, an auctioneer based in Toulouse, found "Judith and Holofernes" in an attic there.
Michael Doyle, an auctioneer at Julien's Auctions, said "Umbrella Rat" could fetch as much as $100,000.
The ring is described as an "exceptionally rare piece of Elvis material" by auctioneer Andrew Aldridge.
What it takes to be an art auctioneer at the largest auction house in the world
"Online is now our most popular bidding platform," said Mr. Branczik, who is also an auctioneer.
"It's not in good condition," the auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said in a phone interview on Sunday.
Sometimes, the proceedings lag — usually because of lackluster bidding, a sparse crowd or a ponderous auctioneer.
And while Collins might have a southern drawl, he speaks with the speed of an auctioneer.
The auctioneer, Adams Amsterdam Auctions, says that they are the only known set in private hands.
In 2013, a prominent Sotheby's auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, also left, to become a private art adviser.
A circus involving a disruption from a known conservative activist and a congressman's surreal auctioneer chant ensued.
" Representative Jim Jordan, riffing like an angry auctioneer, closed the hearings dismissing them as a "darn sham.
"Lord Byron died in 1824 aged 36 years old," Charterhouse auctioneer Richard Bromell stated in a release.
"It is generally people fascinated with that period of history," auctioneer Sophie Jones said of the sale.
"In French we would call her incontournable" — essential — said Simon de Pury, the art auctioneer and collector.
"Five-6-7-800 dollars already!" the auctioneer announced, as bids came in at a frenetic pace.
After negotiations, the piece was restituted to Stern's estate, and the auctioneer, Frank Hargesheimer, compensated the painting's consignor.
An auctioneer said that the tin itself is rare, but "to find the chocolate still inside is unreal."
"It's a tangible gift from the most controversial love story of the 20th century," explained auctioneer Andrew Aldridge.
Allsop, Britain's biggest auctioneer, achieved its biggest sale volume in a decade at a sale on Oct. 10.
Tash Perrin has been an auctioneer at Christie's, the largest auction house in the world, for 18 years.
"She'd never had an auctioneer fall into her motherhouse before," Ms. Kelly later said in a video interview.
Auctioneer Dawn Miller defended the decision to accept the robe for a consignment sale, citing its "historical" value.
But rather than drown out the proceedings, she got interrupted — by a Congress member doing an auctioneer bit.
A second-generation auctioneer specializing in real estate, antiques and arts, she teaches at the Ohio Auction School.
When the auctioneer asked for an opening bid, he received only tight-lipped smiles and an awkward silence.
He then trained as a livestock auctioneer before progressing into secondhand antique dealing and then to fine art.
I have been an actual auctioneer for 35 years, but have worked in auction houses for 43 years.
Folk art auctioneer Steve Slotin said he would have been interested in the paintings that Young left behind.
The auctioneer said 10 percent of Wednesday's sale price will be donated to funding education about the Holocaust.
Auctioneer, Profiles in History is set to hold its online auction of the "Animation & Disneyana" event at 11 a.m.
Newell's move comes almost a month after industrial auctioneer Ritchie Bros said Saligram would step down effective Oct. 1.
Leading fine art auctioneer Sotheby's turned Dali and Magritte paintings into VR landscapes that visitors could explore with headsets.
Richard Pinedo, an online auctioneer of fake IDs, will be sentenced in mid-September or later for identity fraud.
At first, Cardi bid $106K on the designer table top book, even though the auctioneer had asked for $110K.
But there were still moments Tuesday night when it felt as though the auctioneer Helena Newman was pulling teeth.
A Christie's auctioneer was there to rally the attendees, many of whom were in town for a blockchain summit.
Auctioneer Barrett-Jackson sold a 1948 Dodge Power Wagon for $0003,800, while early Ford Broncos are selling for $50,000.
Throughout the event, Lot 39, Cattelan's "Him," stood on a platform to the right of the auctioneer, Jussi Pylkkanen.
I picked a pair with green stars.) The auctioneer (Missy Burmeister) does a fine job with these set pieces.
"Looking for another bid, please, Francois, at $350 million," the auctioneer said, and the crowd laughed at his audacity.
When it didn't sell, a Champaign auctioneer bought it himself, more for the wooden crates than for the paintings themselves.
Justin and the auctioneer reference the car's history ... among other things, it was nailed by paparazzi on an L.A. freeway.
Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer, rose more than 20 percent Tuesday in New York trade after two big announcements.
The company was founded by his grandfather's nephew, Benjamin Swann, in 1941; Mr. Lowry's father, George, is also an auctioneer.
Then as an auctioneer you're just standing there listening to the plinging, and finally it stops and you say, 'O.
Today, it is a fundamental part of how auctions work, said Jussi Pylkkanen, global president of Christie's and an auctioneer.
Now, the global auctioneer is conducting a New York sale of the category for the first time on Dec. 13.
An auction room has to be a comfortable environment for buyers where everyone is treated equally by a trustworthy auctioneer.
Hugh Edmeades will stand down from his full-time job at Christie's in order to become an independent freelance auctioneer.
The auctioneer said the rough gemstone "of exceptional transparency" could yield the largest top-quality diamond ever cut and polished.
Wilsons, an auctioneer that regularly disposes of criminals' assets, recently sold a Rolex watch for £13,000 and a BMW for £20,500.
The "filler" words are where each auctioneer puts his or her own signature on the chant and creates its melodic nature.
The only one who seemed to keep his energy up was the second auctioneer, Rupert Banner, who had replaced the first.
"We didn't know it was as bad as this," said Ian Sharp, industry veteran and chief auctioneer at Macdonald & Co Woolbrokers.
A decade before the United States declared itself independent of Britain, the London auctioneer James Christie had his very first sale.
A few years ago, I was on the phone with a top auctioneer bidding on this beautiful Georgia O'Keeffe white flower.
The board read $70 million before the auctioneer realized the trouble just behind him and asked for it to be corrected.
The auction continues through dinner with a live auctioneer, but these items are much more lavish so we do NOT participate.
John Calhoun, a 43-year-old local auctioneer and improbably named advocate of removal, stared at Lee dangling in the air.
Copart, an online auctioneer of used and salvaged cars, has soared 88% this year and 20193% over the past five years.
Hundred-and-fifty, Burns mouthed, and the spotter shouted it back to the auctioneer and the crowd let out a cheer.
He selected Mecum, a less prestigious auctioneer perhaps than the big names in the business such as RM Sotheby's and Gooding.
Later, the "most expensive rare Pepe in existence," according to the auctioneer, sold after an enthusiastic but good-natured bidding war.
An auctioneer is at the front, and I sit in the audience with my laptop and place bids for the remote buyers.
The Missouri Republican, who was a professional auctioneer before pursuing a political career, shut down her tirade with expert rapid-fire auctioneering.
Affecting the voice of an auctioneer, Long proceeded to conduct a fake auction until Loomer could be removed from the hearing room.
Throughout the livestream from Drouot, the Lakota jacket loomed behind the auctioneer, a visual reminder of the contested cultural heritage being sold.
Sharp, the chief auctioneer at Macdonald & Co Woolbrokers, uses an abbreviated swing of his gavel to swiftly work through the day's offerings.
"There are more of these than you think," said Leslie Wright, who runs the Los Angeles division of Bonhams, the art auctioneer.
Inside Art Early this week, when the art world braced for the potential fallout from "Brexit," at least one auctioneer was resolute.
But the cars were being sold "as is," even if they were under recall, the auctioneer, Dennis Alestra, announced through a loudspeaker.
Elliott's new campaigns in 2019 included a push for changes at U.S. online auctioneer eBay Inc, where Starboard also ran a campaign.
All of that gave the auctioneer a sense of who would be bidding and about how much they were willing to spend.
The bride, 32, is a jewelry specialist at Christie's, the Manhattan auction house, where she is also in the auctioneer training program.
Omidyar wrote the code for online auctioneer eBay by himself in 1995 in an attempt to impress his girlfriend, according to Entrepreneur.
Barron first learns of the stamp from a Sotheby's auctioneer and strings along the small drama of its sale throughout the book.
"Now you're being more like an auctioneer, where you're an agent for your purpose and an agent for your goals," she says.
THE young woman with the microphone cajoles, hectors and wheedles customers with the breathless enthusiasm of a livestock auctioneer at a county fair.
In 2014, a friend of French auctioneer Marc Labarbe called him to tell him about a painting they had found in their attic.
LONDON (Reuters) - Auctioneer Christie's has been fined 3,250 pounds ($4,750) for selling elephant ivory without the correct documentation, London police said on Tuesday.
The 200 pence per share offer represents a 5.2 discount to Friday's closing price for the car auctioneer of 211 pence per share.
The auctioneer at the sale made clear that all of the cars would be sold as is, even if they had been recalled.
The auctioneer started the bidding at $264 million, but the large screen displaying the bids showed a starting bid of $217 million instead.
"It was an incredible price," the auctioneer, Antoine Briscadieu, said of the result, the highest price ever achieved at this family auction house.
When the incumbent, Kim Reynolds, talks, she spreads her arms wide and sometimes speaks so quickly she sounds like a state fair auctioneer.
Auctioneer Wayne Tuiskula told MUNCHIES that 600 people registered for the online auction; 200 is an average number of bidders for the site.
Representative Billy Long, Republican of Missouri, broke into an auctioneer's patter — he was once an auctioneer — to drown her out until security arrived.
"This whole trade war, it's a self-inflicted wound — that's what really gets to me," Kevin Cone, an auctioneer and farmer here, said.
The Christie's training could last several months, but now, as a freelancer, I offer an introductory three-day course, with the first spent talking about the basic requirements of being an auctioneer, the second studying the numbers and learning about the patterns that enable an auctioneer to arrive at the reserve price, the minimum an owner will accept for the item.
In the state of California, if rent on a storage locker isn't paid for three months, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer.
Maris remained bullish despite signs the art market cycle has peaked, with leading auctioneer Christie's reporting a 5 percent fall in sales in 2015.
The auctioneer, G J Wisdom & Co, says the phones are a mix of concept models to fully functional ones, so some are not operational.
However, an Artcurial auctioneer told Reuters last week his company would be delighted if Banksy, whose real identity is unknown, was planning another surprise.
Gadgetzan Auctioneer is at the center of that party, and the deck should accompany it with lots of Rogue's more powerful low-mana spells.
The gallery, run by Peter Bartlow, contacted an auctioneer, hoping no doubt for a payday similar to those achieved by several recent Doig sales.
And in 2019, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) recovered more than 100 stolen paintings and artifacts after receiving a tip from an auctioneer.
When Bonnell is intellectually stimulated or annoyed, which is most of the time, his rate of speech rises to that of a seasoned auctioneer.
Many states require auction houses to be registered or licensed, so check with the appropriate agency in the state where the auctioneer is based.
Below, Bondi shares three ways that she says thinking like an auctioneer can help any woman to ask for what they want at work.
There was also the auctioneer who informed me (along with a room full of our colleagues) that I'd provided him with hours of masturbation fodder.
Tash Perrin is an auctioneer at Christie's, the world's largest auction house, which sells billions of dollars of art, jewelry, and luxury goods each year.
She could talk a blue streak (a fine attribute for an auctioneer) but could also sport a gleeful pink streak in her hair (less so).
Yet early results across the board reflected totals for most lots exceeding five times as much as the estimates proposed by Wright, the Chicago auctioneer.
I am looking for a professional auctioneer that can verbally reenact outside the White House everything important Trump is giving away to the highest bidder.
During the auction, the screen operator and some audience members heard the auction start at $270 million, but the auctioneer was actually saying $264 million.
The buyer, who has remained anonymous, told auctioneer Claude Aguttes that if they were to win the bidding, they would present it to the public.
"That's Aby trying to break in," the auctioneer Richard Wright said, referring to the developer Aby Rosen, who bought the building with partners in 2000.
"The significance of this watch cannot be overstated," said Paul Boutros, a senior vice president with Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, the watch auctioneer.
Since 2015 Mr. Hines had been Phillips's international head of watches under Aurel Bacs, the star auctioneer who established Phillips' watch division in late 2014.
Sure enough, the bidding never took off for that top lot on Tuesday, despite the best and exceedingly patient efforts of the auctioneer, Jussi Pylkkanen.
With the hard work done, Colombo is keen to get on and eat his asado breakfast, a daily ritual for the auctioneer and his team.
Twice, it seemed to be petering out as the auctioneer, Andrew Robinson, nearly banged his final gavel, only to be extended with one more bid.
"It's literally the holy grail," says Sean McGlone, managing director at Whisky Auctioneer, a Perth-based online auction house, of the soon-to-sell Macallan.
Loomer was removed from the room as Republican Representative Billy Long used the droning cadence of his former career as an auctioneer to drown her out.
The young auctioneer initially suspected the usually exquisite painting to be a work of Italian primitivism, "but I didn't imagine it was a Cimabue," she said.
On March 20th a wine sale held by Christie's, a British auction house, featured so many lots that the voluble auctioneer lost count at number 36.
Billed as "an iconic piece of Liverpool and the Beatles' history" by the auctioneer, the proceeds will go toward a trust which manages affordable housing projects.
Car auctioneer BCA Marketplace is returning to Europe's leveraged loan market with a £1.387bn financing to back its £1.91bn acquisition by British private equity firm TDR.
YENNORA, Australia (Reuters) - Auctioneer Ian Sharp has been selling Australian agricultural products to the highest bidder since 753, and he's never seen demand like this before.
And whether you can string them together in quick bursts like an auctioneer, or slowly enunciate each in a thick, beautiful, Slovenian accent, they are there.
After a year, I was allowed to work as a junior specialist in the furniture department, where I spent 10 years and eventually became an auctioneer.
" Hyperallergic reached out to EVE for comment prior to the meeting, but was told that auctioneer Alain Leroy "waits to hear what they have to say.
Advantage Oilfield Services, an oilfield firm from Lindsay, Oklahoma, is liquidating its equipment next week, according to a notice from Superior Energy Auctioneers, an industry auctioneer.
"I was astonished by it," said Wes Cowan, an auctioneer and dealer who examined the secretary at the Winter Antiques Show in New York in 21862.
Advantage Oilfield Services, an oilfield firm from Lindsay, Oklahoma, is liquidating its equipment next week, according to a notice from Superior Energy Auctioneers, an industry auctioneer.
But technology has brought the auction process to a global audience — so if it doesn't "help" the actual auctioneer, it certainly has helped the auction houses.
A price list in a statement from the auctioneer and Walt Disney Co. UK & Ireland suggests they could fetch more than 130,000 pounds ($165,000) in total.
Top gallerists such as David Zwirner of New York and Jay Jopling of London are backing Paddle8, another online auctioneer, which says its sales doubled last year.
This time, however, Lorna Kelly — Sotheby's auctioneer, Upper East Side socialite and would-be minister to the poor — had been put in her place by Mother Teresa.
Returning to the rostrum, she became a freelance auctioneer for charitable organizations, among them Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, for which she raised more than $6 million.
He has been offered up for sale as one of a group of "big strong boys for farm work," according to the auctioneer, who remains off camera.
"You have to stay 100 percent focused," said Diana Bramham, 38, a vice president and specialist in Latin American art at Christie's who is also an auctioneer.
"The animal that our judge touches on the back is the supreme dairy animal of 2016," the compere-for-the-day, an auctioneer, whispers into his microphone.
After another bidder rang in at $107K, the singer upped her bid to $108K before bidding a final $111K — $1,000 more than the auctioneer had asked for.
"Come now, madam, can I see €80,000," asked the auctioneer, Arnaud Oliveux, clad in a blue suit and Supreme T-shirt (the trunk's original estimate was €70,0003).
Like every draft before it, that one was managed by Madley, a second-generation auctioneer who still plays cricket for a local club in an English league.
Like an auctioneer, he gestures around the room and echoes the numbers that his supporters call out, declaring as the winner the person with the most debt.
Auctioneer Kerry Taylor said the gown had previously been bought in 2013 for 200,000 pounds "by a romantic gentleman who wanted basically to cheer up his wife".
The auctioneer describes it thus: This original silkscreen on canvas reveals the sensual forms of the male pelvis and hips in washes of pink, green, and aqua blue.
Known as the "Hurricane Cowboy," the auctioneer from Virginia grew up around farm animals, making extra cash to help his family by riding auction horses and racing bulls.
"We are living in extraordinary times," said Oliver Barker, Sotheby's senior international specialist of contemporary art who also served as auctioneer, as jubilant Sotheby's officials toasted the sale.
A garish, fairy-lit Buddha shrine shines like a carnival and, above the hubbub, a clergyman chants like an auctioneer as the faithful pour forward with cash offerings.
Foxx and the recently engaged Menzel join presenters Denzel Washington, Anjelica Huston, Quincy Jones and Carole Bayer Sager, and Sharon Stone as auctioneer at the Beverly Hills event.
"Good to see some British exports are still desirable," the auctioneer Oliver Barker said wryly at Sotheby's on Tuesday night, as the painting sold to a Chinese museum.
"The auctioneer and, you know, all the other people who were helping to feed all the meat through - it's just great fun and it's really entertaining," said Anne.
The small 10-gram decoration - worth less than $500 if melted down for its metal - is expected to reach around 300 times that, auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat said.
Auctioneer Chris Scerri told Reuters his agency had created an online auction product that lets people bid remotely, ensuring that auctions can continue even with no one present.
So when the auctioneer called out "Parcel 41," announcing the sale of a 130,603-square-foot building in the East Village, the former Public School 64, mayhem erupted.
The RM Sotheby's auctioneer at the event hammered to signal that the Aston Martin had been sold for $22.5 million, about 10 percent above the pre-sale estimate.
The auctioneer will walk around the sale with a specialist ahead of time who will say, this is rare, or that an item might have an interesting provenance.
"A lot of people think of modernism as cold and clinical or bold and colored, and Risom's was neither," the Wright auctioneer Richard Wright said in an interview.
There is an element of compassion in this: Nat knows that Samuel is a relatively lenient master, not disposed to rape, which the auctioneer invites, with increasing explicitness.
Sellers must provide a valid business license, an auctioneer license when required, a valid website, a legitimate business address location, and publicly available information on the business itself.
Opened in 1975, the auction rooms sold the quirkier, less expensive (and often more exciting) stuff that the main branch of the venerable auctioneer, in posh St James's, eschewed.
The world's largest industrial equipment auctioneer said on Monday it set new company records for the number of sellers and registered bidders at its five-day Edmonton, Alberta, auction.
Figures released by Auction Holding Limited, the official auctioneer, showed that 164.3 million kilograms of tobacco had been sold at an average price of U$1.74/kg by Wednesday.
Sotheby's now says that Lorna Kelly, who came to Sotheby's in the 1970s, was the first female auctioneer to lead an evening sale in New York, not Ms. Newman.
An auctioneer says a copy of former President Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech could command more than $1 million when it hits the auction block next week.
Right now, Motley Fool investors believe vehicle auctioneer Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT), power-and-gas utility Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED), and pharmaceutical heavyweight Pfizer(NYSE:PFE) are offering excellent entry points for retirees.
Which is why, on a recent morning, I typed out an email to a sports memorabilia auctioneer, asking about the value of a collection of signed baseballs from 1948.
"This is an opportunity for fans to remember their hero by owning memorabilia from his remarkable career," auctioneer Nate Sanders said in a statement, cited by The Hollywood Reporter.
Some traits divide a run-of-the-mill auctioneer and a good one: energy, charisma, engaging, confidence, persuasive, entertaining, quick thinking, patient, commanding, enthusiastic, charm, awareness, humanity, passion, fun.
"It was the first time that Diana and Charles had visited America as a couple, it was a momentous occasion at the White House," auctioneer Kerry Taylor told Reuters.
We've had a few people pull the first pint over the years—we don't advertise who's doing it but we have a proper auctioneer there who "auctions" them off.
Though this is fascinating for art historians, it's perhaps not what an auctioneer — or a billionaire collector — wants to hear about a painting valued at more than €100 million.
"They don't spring for that kind of thing, because they think it's unnecessary," Jia Wei, a former auctioneer, who used to work with Wang Wei, Liu's wife, told me.
It also sold a vintage Aston Martin DB5 with U.K. auctioneer Coys, in what it claims is the first time a historic car has been bought directly via social media.
An auctioneer spotted the artwork — which measures just eight inches by ten inches — and suggested the woman have a series of tests performed using infrared light to determine its worth.
It's not impossible to make steady gold in this climate, but it entails plopping your ass in front of the auctioneer and continually undercutting newer glyph listings with your own.
The final, highest bid was a whopping $70 million before the auctioneer noticed the grand mistake and announced that the final bid was actually $17 million and not $70 million.
Not only can they cycle when matched with a Gadgetzan Auctioneer, but they dispatch enemy minions to stave off your opponent's pressure while you amass your resources for the win.
As bidding continued, the number on the screen made its way up to $40 million and $50 million, all while the auctioneer was actually saying $14 million and $15 million.
A 3-billion-year-old diamond the size of a tennis ball — the largest discovered in over a century — could sell for more than $70 million, auctioneer Sotheby's said Wednesday.
To create a sturdier measure, WineBid, the biggest online wine auctioneer, kindly gave us a full sales record for every wine sold at least ten times on its site since 22003.
In a chapter on financial bubbles, Mr McMahon tracks the boom and bust in Moutai, China's most prized brand of baijiu, a grain-based spirit, through the story of an auctioneer.
A rare blue diamond ring belonging to the late Shirley Temple, one of Hollywood's most famous child actors, is going up for auction starting at $25 million, auctioneer Sotheby's said Thursday.
When this painting took its own turn at Christie's in 2019, the so-called hammer price (the price before taxes and fees to the auctioneer) wound up being just $5.5 million.
And on sale day, it seemed no sound — no midway ride, no crackling caldron of frying oil, no turkey's gobble — rose above the cries and pleas of a short-sleeved auctioneer.
HONG KONG — Tim Bourne, an auctioneer and watch specialist who previously held senior roles at Sotheby's and Christie's, joined Bonhams in late February as the international director of watches for Asia.
"When he wanted something, he was passionate," said Tobias Meyer, the former Sotheby's principal auctioneer who now works as a private dealer and is advising the Newhouse family on the estate.
But of all the reporters in the traveling press, her favorite might have been Fox News's Ed Henry, who would yell questions at her with the grace of a livestock auctioneer.
Billy Long (R-Mo.), who made a living off his oratory skills as an auctioneer and talk-radio host, said no one would miss the response if congressional leaders nixed it.
"Behold the future—here it is," the auctioneer declared before the bidding started on the piece, which is the first AI-generated artwork to be sold by a major auction house.
" Auctioneer Paul Fairweather spoke highly of the tape, calling it "completely unique and of great historical interest, being the earliest studio recording of a fledgling musician who would go on to superstardom.
Gaga's dress is going up for sale on Halloween via Nate D. Sanders Auctions, and bidding opens at $8,000 ... that is, unless the auctioneer gets cold feet given what we've found out.
This winter Havas, an advertising agency, and Lincoln Park Community Services, a charity, persuaded 20 local artists to create dibs chairs for auction on eBay, an online auctioneer, to help the homeless.
A wheelchair used by physicist Stephen Hawking has sold at auction for almost 2296,2750 pounds ($393,000), while a copy of his doctoral thesis fetched almost 585,000 pounds ($767,000), auctioneer Christie's said Thursday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A unique vintage wristwatch went under the hammer for 13 million Swiss francs ($3.88 million) in Geneva on Tuesday, auctioneer Sotheby's said, setting a world record price after hectic bidding.
The bidding was so subtle that I couldn't even tell when people were bidding, and there were special "bid spotters" whose entire job is to watch for bids and alert the auctioneer.
"We have a multibillion-dollar market of pre-owned that is the opposite of under control," said Aurel Bacs, the auctioneer who leads Phillips' watch department through his consulting firm, Bacs & Russo.
Items seized after a criminal trial are often " identified by the court as being available to sell," Aidan Larkin, an auctioneer and group asset recovery manager at Wilsons, told The Daily Mail.
GENEVA — "Last chance — and sold for 6 million 200 thousand," the auctioneer Rahul Kadakia said as he brought down his hammer on lot 12, a one-of-a-kind Patek Philippe wristwatch.
In videos posted online of the event, the auctioneer called out an opening bid of $264 million but the large screen behind, which which showed the current bid price, showed $3563 million.
"Adjugé!" said a gray-haired auctioneer, over and over, as he gaveled away nearly every one of the 200 lots for sale at Drouot, an auction house, in Paris in mid-November.
"We're a divided country," said Randy Dickensheets, an auctioneer, who, with practiced optimism, predicted a bidding war over Abraham Lincoln and prices of at least $2000,27.50 to $256,733 for the other presidents.
Its potential was first noticed by the auctioneer Patrice Carrère at a retirement home in Biarritz in 2013, and the work was then found in storage after the death of its owner.
While the ordinary stationery item would admittedly cost very little, "Antiques Roadshow" host and auctioneer Lee Young told the BBC that the story surrounding the item would make it far more valuable.
But how can that man be labeled all thumbs if the teenager sitting across from me can use his thumbs on his smartphone fast enough to take dictation from a cattle auctioneer?
Watch Zell Miller rant about John Kerry as an "auctioneer selling off our national security," proposing to defend us with "spitballs"; then challenging MSNBC's Chris Matthews to a duel: I rest my case.
Brady served as an auctioneer at the TAG Heuer event at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn ... posing with guests like Evander Holyfield, Henrik Lundqvist and even takin' a punch from fashion designer Iris Apfel.
On April 14, auctioneer Clarence White explained that "recent form on the street" suggested that a "well-renovated home" in this location would be worth upwards of two million Australian dollars ($1.5 million).
The auctioneer of the mansion told the Post that both men lobbied him with claims that the other didn't have the money to secure the purchase, which was finalized for Trump in 2004.
"Come on, men, are you in, are you out, or are you stayin' home — this is a lot of scenery going to waste," the auctioneer joked when no one bid on a parcel.
Sotheby's plans to buy $73.8 million of stock from Marcato at $36 a share, helping the fund cut its stake in the auctioneer by roughly half to 4.9 percent, regulatory filings on Tuesday showed.
The jewel — a Harry Winston 7.45-carat emerald-cut diamond ring — will be auctioned off for a private client by estate jewelry auctioneer Joseph DuMouchelle on Wednesday, June 29th at New York's Lotte Palace.
Two young men stand in the dark as an auctioneer shouts out prices in the footage published by news network CNN last week, appearing to sell them for the equivalent of about $400 each.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - After a long pause, the auctioneer commissioned to sell a northern Sydney beach-side apartment for in excess of A$21.3,22015 ($214,391) puts his gavel away, unable to entice a single bid.
For example, a good move manager will know not to call a top-tier auctioneer for something worth a few thousand dollars, and know which estate liquidators or junk haulers work well with seniors.
In 2014, while he was a consultant, he was appointed to establish the house's revived New York office by Aurel Bacs, the star auctioneer whose Bacs and Russo consultancy group runs the watch department.
A 21962 Golden Globe awarded to Marilyn Monroe was sold this weekend for $363,236, one of the highest prices fetched at auction for a Golden Globe, according to the auctioneer who brokered the sale.
LONDON — Paddle8, the online art auctioneer known for selling a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album to Martin Shkreli, has had a rough 12 months, including the bankruptcy of its parent company.
They included a £2.193bn-equivalent loan backing Blackstone and Lego's founding family's acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments and a £997m-equivalent loan backing the acquisition of British car auctioneer BCA Marketplace.
The use of an actor (Igor Vernik, speaking credible French and English as well as Russian) playing the auctioneer, Avedon and an apparatchik who reports Nureyev's defection, provides a dramatic fillip and smooth linkages.
Other celebrities in attendance included: January Jones, who presented Handler with her award, Will Ferrell and his wife Viveca, who served as the evening's auctioneer, Voice champ Alisan Porter, who also performed, and Tom Arnold.
The auctioneer has placed 2100 items under the hammer, including his doctoral thesis on the origins of the universe, a script from an appearance in "The Simpsons" cartoon and even one of his early wheelchairs.
On a snowy early February morning, inside the crowded hall at the Jasper County Fairgrounds, three people from BMO Harris huddled together, scribbling notes, as auctioneer Jonathan Kraft paced in front of the somber crowd.
The buyer was not disclosed in the sold note posted on the firm's website, and auctioneer Brigitte Kruse said she could not immediately release information about the buyer or the buyer's plans for the plane.
Canadian industrial auctioneer Ritchie Bros Auctioneers Inc said on Monday it would buy IronPlanet, a privately held U.S. e-commerce site for used equipment, for about $758.5 million, as it looks to diversify its portfolio.
The auctioneer guy turns up in late April or early May and says, 'I love your stuff, but I need it now so we can photograph it and get it in our catalog for June.
"We've decided not to sell the diamond today because the highest bid price ... does not match the government reserve price," Sahr Wonday, chief auctioneer and head of the National Minerals Agency, told a packed room.
"Do you know how this works?" the auctioneer joked, but Cardi — who attended the event with husband Offset — appeared unbothered and celebrated with her hands in the air as she won the coffee table book.
The famous auctioneer -- arguably the face of A&E's popular show -- suddenly went from hunting down forgotten treasures in storage lockers to learning how to walk again and do the most basic functions -- like shower.
"This was a momentous night for the art market," said the auctioneer, Helena Newman, chairwoman of Sotheby's Europe, after her evening sale of Impressionist, modern and Surrealist art, which brought a total of £194.8 million.
As the auctioneer Sellem, the bald and spectacled Alan Oke bore some resemblance to Stravinsky, dispassionately selling off the 18th-century artifacts of Tom and Baba's house — or relics from the warehouse of music past.
"This was a momentous night for the art market," the auctioneer, Helena Newman, chairwoman of Sotheby's Europe, said after her evening sale of Impressionist, modern and Surrealist art, which brought a total of £194.8 million.
The program, officially called BMW's Art Cars, began in 1975 and was spearheaded by Herve Poulain, a 35-year-old French race car driver and auctioneer whose two passions in life were art and racing.
California-based auctioneer, Profiles in History is offering up more than 600 items of vintage and modern animation art, amongst other memorabilia Friday, with several products from other popular cartoons set to make an appearance too.
"Great price, great picture!" exclaimed the auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen, under a screen that showed "GBP 100,200,000" above conversions into a range of currencies that had strengthened against the pound in the last few months — and days.
"This region has been growing for the last five to ten years and an increasing number of the world's biggest collectors are here," said Sam Hines, worldwide head of watches at Sotheby's and the night's auctioneer.
LONDON, Sept 25 (LPC) - British car auctioneer BCA Marketplace has launched a sterling-denominated term loan as part of its buyout financing, testing market appetite for UK deals amid Brexit turmoil and a potential general election.
Representative Billy Long, Republican of Missouri and a certified auctioneer, quickly stepped in with a fast-paced patter in an attempt to drown out Ms. Loomer until the police could remove her from the hearing room.
As she began shouting, Congressman Billy Long (R-MO 7th District) summoned his certification as an auctioneer to overwhelm Loomer's alt-right accusations with rapid patter that would be welcome at either an art or cattle auction.
He eventually decided to sell the item, which fetched a hammer price of £280,000 ($347,700)—bumped to £346,300 ($430,000) when adding the buyers' premium, which covers the auctioneer expenses—at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, West Sussex.
The new Pirates ride keeps the auction concept, but now there's "loot" for sale and the auctioneer is a red-headed woman, the exact same character who was among those being auctioned off in the original ride.
The bag, which for years sat unidentified in a box at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, was bought by a person who bid by telephone and did not wish to be named publicly, auctioneer Sotheby's said.
Parkhomenko said on Twitter he's still looking for bagpipers, tap dancers, puppeteers and a professional auctioneer "that can verbally reenact outside the White House everything important Trump is giving away to the highest bidder" for future protests.
Some of the public to private deals on the launchpad include a £20133bn financing backing the buyout of car auctioneer BCA Marketplace and £22013bn-equivalent of loans backing the acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments.
Other factors affecting the housing market in Melbourne, which is the capital of Victoria state, are low interest rates, low unemployment and a strengthening economy, said Tim Derham, a director, agent and auctioneer with Abercromby's Real Estate.
Madrid&aposs High Court, in a ruling released on Thursday, said Botin had been informed in 2012 by auctioneer Christie&aposs that he would need official permission to sell the century-old painting in a London auction.
But the show also frames Claire as a kind of benevolent white savior who, shocked at the sight of an auctioneer exposing a slave's penis to give account of his virility, starts swatting at him with her parasol.
While Pitt was initially on his phone when the auction began, once the auctioneer offered up the chance to watch GOT with the 31-year-old actress, the War Machine actor snapped to attention and began enthusiastically clapping.
We got an auctioneer around to see if we might sell our furniture via auction (as we'd decided that anything you ever put in storage never comes back out, so let's bite the bullet and let it go).
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When the auctioneer Frederik Bruun Rasmussen stands on the auction podium for an evening sale at his family-owned auction house in Copenhagen, he hears a "pling" every time someone bids remotely through the live online bidding platform.
A number of public-to-private deals has kept the market busy, including £972m of leveraged loans backing the buyout of UK car auctioneer BCA Marketplace and €450m of loans for Madrid-based theme park operator Parques Reunidos.
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 29 (Reuters) - An auctioneer had been arrested on suspicion of violating a ban on selling animals from an area affected by foot and mouth disease in South Africa's Limpopo province, the agricultural department said on Wednesday.
Online auction house UBid Estate & Auction Services in Texas was hired by RadioShack to auction off a cache of electronics and store memorabilia from 12 safes in Fort Worth, Texas, UBid owner and auctioneer Michael Huff said Wednesday.
On Thursday, the art dealer Eric Turquin unveiled a spectacularly well-preserved 17th-century canvas of "Judith and Holofernes" that Marc Labarbe, an auctioneer based in Toulouse, France, found in the attic of a house there in 2014.
You can't just turn up at Liniers hoping to chance upon some auction action, so we've got a date with Carlos Colombo, a beef broker and auctioneer for the family business Colombo y Magliano—also Riveira's wife's cousin.
Dorsey kept his cool through some bizarre moments, most notably a far-right activist screaming and a conservative lawmaker assuming the voice of an auctioneer and staging a faux auction until she could be escorted out of the building.
Parkhomenko said on Twitter he's still on the lookout for bagpipers, tap dancers, puppeteers and a professional auctioneer "that can verbally reenact outside the White House everything important Trump is giving away to the highest bidder" for the protests.
He knew he needed to do something That brings us to the Rock County 4-H Fair, the livestock auction and Waylon nervously holding up a sign with Roo the hog's picture and the frenetic droning of an auctioneer.
My mother, sole offspring of a long line of Breton farmers, at that time aged twenty, also happened to be in town, performing the duties of a bridesmaid at the wedding of the daughter of a wealthy cattle auctioneer.
Some art heist films put museum security guards in the privileged position of knowing how to abscond with a masterpiece, but Trance gives us a twist, with an art auctioneer (James McAvoy) stealing a valuable painting by Francisco Goya.
Nothing, though, could prepare him for a phone call from Wildblood, an I.P.L. organizer and old cricket teammate from Sherborne, a leading English boarding school, offering him the role as auctioneer for the new league on 10 days' notice.
Marion, a former trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and her husband, John L. Marion, the former chairman and chief auctioneer of Sotheby's North America, established the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe in 1997.
In the chilly sales room, buyers crowd around pallets loaded with ahi tuna, moonfish or swordfish as the auctioneer takes bids, jotting the final price per pound on a piece of paper that is then attached to the fish.
On the day of the sale, a group of protesters approached the auctioneer and proceeded to carry out an unprecedented, hour-long public debate in the salesroom to discuss the reasons for restituting, rather than selling, pillaged cultural patrimony.
And while Heffner, the auctioneer, believes the trophy Bo Jackson won in 1985 at Auburn might be worth $1 million because of his cross-generational appeal, the trophies of even relatively anonymous winners are worth close to half that.
LONDON, June 22019 (LPC) - Car auctioneer BCA Marketplace is returning to Europe's leveraged loan market as it seeks to raise just over £2.43bn-equivalent of debt to back its £22.4bn acquisition by British private equity firm TDR, banking sources said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Furniture, jewelry and cowboy boots are among the more than 700 personal items that once belonged to U.S. President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan set for sale by auctioneer Christie's in New York starting on Monday.
WRECK OF WWII SHIP DISCOVERED 74 YEARS AFTER IT DISAPPEARED DURING A RESCUE MISSION "To have candid photos of Churchill at that moment in history really is very unusual," Henry Aldridge & Son Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge told Fox News via email.
The opening offer for the "Rhinocrétaire," a welded metal writing desk in the shape of a rhinoceros dated 0003, was almost three times the low estimate of 700,000 euros, or about $775,210 — and the auctioneer hadn't even started the bidding.
"Most of the time these (works) get covered up by the city or different private building owners so it's very rare to find an existing piece of street art that is actually from the streets," said Julien's auctioneer Michael Doyle.
Conrad Burns, a former Montana livestock auctioneer who was catapulted from county commissioner to the United States Senate, where he was known for speaking plainly and for sometimes making derogatory remarks, died on Thursday at his home in Billings, Mont.
"This record shows that today, a work of art can be sold anywhere in the world thanks especially to powerful platforms such as [the auction website] Interencheres," the auctioneer and director of Actéon Group, Dominique Le Coënt, said in a statement.
Paul Newman's "Paul Newman" — the only "exotic"-dialed Daytona that Mr. Newman owned — was the centerpiece of a New York auction that brought in almost $29 million in total sales, according to a statement released Thursday night by the auctioneer.
PARIS — "We're counting on you and your raised hands to bid for the street art selected by the M.B.A. students and go home victorious!" said Arnaud Oliveux, the auctioneer and specialist in urban art at the French auction house Artcurial.
Potential sizeable deals include the £13bn acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments; the £1.91bn buyout of car auctioneer BCA Marketplace; the US$3.7bn acquisition of US auction house Sotheby's and KKR's €6.8bn offer for German publisher Axel Springer .
After the hammer went down on the staggering Leonardo da Vinci sale Wednesday night — $103 million dollars for a painting of disputed quality — it was difficult for the auctioneer and potential bidders to turn their attention to the other lots.
While white players -- like New England quarterback Tom Brady and tight end Rob Gronkowski -- were part of the draft, the footage of an auctioneer "selling" New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. led to some on Twitter to voice their outrage.
After competition between two telephone bidders, it was hammered down by the auctioneer Oliver Barker for 1 million pounds, more than three times the estimate and a new auction high for a work solely by the artist, according to Sotheby's.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Nairobi car auctioneer hopefully scanned empty rows of rickety plastic chairs in a dusty lot for more bids but saw only too many vehicles and not enough buyers, an increasing problem as Kenya's economy slows and repossessions pick up.
"I'VE seen grown men with tears in their eyes" in front of it, an auctioneer from Sotheby's said as he opened bidding on June 143th on the 214,22014-carat Lesedi La Rona, the biggest diamond to be discovered in over a century.
"To see the pictures of these men being treated like cattle, and to hear the auctioneer describe them as, quote, 'big strong boys for farm work,' should shock the conscience of us all," US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley told the council.
"At least 22011 to 210 major dealers came in from different parts of the U.S., and a smattering of people came in from this area, from Dallas, Houston, San Antonio" — more than 225 people in all, said Jason Rzepniewski, an auctioneer at Gaston & Sheehan.
Deals awaiting syndication include a £1.387bn-equivalent financing for car auctioneer BCA Marketplace, £3.8bn-equivalent of loans for UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments and US$3bn-equivalent of debt financing to back Bain Capital's potential acquisition of WPP's data analytics division Kantar.
In addition to her role as an auctioneer, Perrin serves as Senior Vice President and Senior Director of Trusts, Estates & Wealth Management Services at Christie's International, which means she represents Christie's at conferences across the country and assists clients through major sales around the world. 
Most people who get paid to talk about soccer in public — to trot out the old chestnuts about players taking their chances and giving 110 percent — deliver their opinions in a tone pitched somewhere between that of an irascible headmaster and a time-strapped auctioneer.
Billy LongWilliam (Billy) H. LongLawmakers from both sides of the aisle mourn Cummings Lawmakers toast Greta Van Susteren's new show Trump honors Stanley Cup champions, talks impeachment, Turkey MORE (R-Mo.), who used to be an auctioneer, to auction off the Stanley Cup trophy.
Robert Flynn Johnson, a curator emeritus from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, quoted Oscar Wilde saying that the only person who likes all art equally is an auctioneer, and said having the mural in a place young adults go to learn is ideal.
The possible Caravaggio is currently on view in the Paris office of Old Master painting dealer Eric Turquin who, along with auctioneer Marc Labarde, has been working to authenticate the work since it was first found by a family in Toulouse in April 2014.
Security guards whisk the half-framed painting away like the Secret Service would a politician; meanwhile, shocked onlookers crowd the area, phones held at arm's length trying to capture what had happened, as a nervous auctioneer tries to calm everyone down and move on with the evening.
"People have asked whether the market might be approaching a peak, but sales like these show we are only just getting out of the blocks", Auctioneer Richard Auterac said, pointing to a steady shift in private investor interest from buy-to-let to commercial real estate.
That hat, which came from a collection belonging to Monaco's royal family, was in much better shape than the one sold on Monday, which is faded, torn and cracked in some places, said Étienne de Baecque, an auctioneer at De Baecque and Associates, which organized the Lyon sale.
Formerly the international director of auctioneering for Christie's, Mr. Edmeades is now an international freelance auctioneer who spoke in London recently about why auctioneers need to be performance artists, the future of his field and how he shares the tools and tips of his trade with a new generation.
"This is very exciting for an old auctioneer like me in the fact that we are selling at these prices and we are clearing a lot of wool," Sharp told Reuters, shortly before an auction at one of the country's biggest wool-selling sites, in Sydney's western suburb of Yennora.
Backed by the state's pork producers and the Missouri Cattlemen's Association, the bill appears to be a product of meat lobbies spooked by the country's growing taste for vegetarian substitutes, and its language parallels that of a House bill sponsored by Republican State Representative Jeff Knight, a former livestock auctioneer.
Such interests are well-represented in Conservative circles; at a pre-election fundraising ball Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Mr Putin's ex-finance minister, successfully bid £160,000 for a tennis match with David Cameron (in a moment of exuberance the auctioneer threw in the party chairman as a ball boy).
Going, going, going, going... The 1939 Porsche Type 64 was expected to auction for at least $20 million at Monterey Car Week in California over the weekend, but a confusing start with the auctioneer and excitement in the room meant the bidding process on the rare vehicle was more than bungled.
There have been highs, such as being appointed chairman of Sotheby's Europe in 1992; and lows, such as being the auctioneer at Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg's disastrous 2002 sale of Impressionist and modern art in New York, at which 203 paintings valued at more than $1 million each failed to sell.
Leveraged loan investors are considering investing in £972m of term loan backing British car auctioneer BCA Marketplace's buyout and a US$2.7bn term loan B that is part of a wider debt financing backing UK telecommunications and satellite operator Inmarsat's acquisition by a consortium of investors led by Apax Partners.
If we could cut out the dorky introduction, the presenters, the acceptance speeches, all attempts at humor, and just have the host rapid-fire shout the names of the winners like an auctioneer, maybe I could sit through the ceremony without feeling my soul peel itself off my body and float away.
LONDON — "We're not at the heights of 2010 and 2011, but the market has definitely recovered its mojo," said Henry Howard-Sneyd, Sotheby's chairman of Asian art, who was the auctioneer in New York this month when an 18th-century Chinese teapot sold for $20113 million, more than 10 times the low estimate.
Billy LongWilliam (Billy) H. LongT-Mobile merger poses more questions than answers GOP pushes back on net neutrality bill at testy hearing The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by Kidney Care Partners — Lawmakers wait for Trump's next move on border deal MORE (R-Mo.) imitating an auctioneer before she was removed by security.
A 3,900-bottle whisky collection that contains some of the rarest whiskys in the world could sell for a total of over $103 million, with some individual bottles going for more than $1 million, according to Whisky Auctioneer, which will be auctioning what it has dubbed "The Perfect Collection" in early 2020.
"I've been collecting for decades—I have a lot of stuff and I love my things, but I'm not going to combine my collection at home with the things from my store," Demenus told me as an auctioneer sold off the red neon Apple sign that hung in the store's window (final price: $300).
You're pulling in the various different elements of the room at various different times to make everybody feel engaged, and you've got to be confident in a lot of the decisions that you're making because the auctioneer, he or she is in charge of the proceedings, of what's happening in the room at that time.
The results on Monday, the first night of the spring auctions, seemed to bear that out — although the Modigliani sold on one bid to the third party without any other buyer interest (despite valiant efforts by the auctioneer, Helena Newman, to bring in Patti Wong, the chairwoman of Sotheby's Asia, who was working the phones).
George Walker, who has been an auctioneer at Allsop for 19 years, said he was convinced of a bumper sale from the first lot, when more than 90 bidders competed to buy a 518 square foot (48.15 square meter) hair salon let on a lease with just a year to run in London's affluent St. John's Wood neighborhood.
Deals include a £2.5bn (US$3.01bn) loan backing Advent's £4bn purchase of UK defence and aerospace group Cobham; £3.8bn-equivalent of loans backing an acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments; a £1.387bn financing backing the buyout of car auctioneer BCA Marketplace ; and €1.325bn of bonds backing a takeover offer of German lighting group Osram.
PARIS — At first glance, this was a high-end, high-profile auction just like any other: held in the sale room of a gilded mansion near Avenue Montaigne, with an enthusiastic auctioneer, a sea of fierce bidders, prices ranked in euros, American dollars, Swiss francs and other currencies, and harried-looking staff members monitoring telephones and online bids.
The cases involving Dickey are the indictment of 12 Russian military agents for allegedly hacking Democrats during the election, 16 Russians and companies accused of operating a social media troll farm to influence American voters and the plea deal of a California-based online bank account auctioneer who admitted to identity fraud that helped the Russian social media trolls.
But one in good condition could go for $75,000 or more, James Bucki, a coin expert at The Spruce Crafts, told CNBC Make It. In 2008, for example, an "attractively preserved" 1969-S Doubled Die Obverse — also discovered through coin roll hunting — was sold for $126,673, Heritage Auctions, the world's largest auctioneer of coins, confirmed in a press release.
In September 2014, Mr. Staechelin sold the painting to a limited liability company run by the British art dealer Guy Bennett on behalf of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, according to documents submitted to the court by lawyers for the Swiss auctioneer Simon de Pury, who was involved in the dealings.
"Of Watches and Men," by Geoffroy Ader and illustrated by Neis AW Editions, 71 pages (in French; English version to be published in March), 20 euros ($22) In this book, the watch expert and auctioneer Geoffroy Ader traces important episodes in the lives of 12 influential figures of the 20th century through the watches that they owned and loved.
Ben Heck Shows You How To Build an Apple-1 Replica From ScratchFew of us have the $905,4003 needed to purchase one of the remaining original Apple-1 computers that …Read more ReadThe Apple-1 that German auctioneer Brecker will bring to the block on May 20th is believed to be one of only eight original kits that are still in working condition.
The 4,8253-square-foot home — built in the 1930s as a farmhouse before being expanded in 2000 and then renovated in 2012 — has 14-foot ceilings and Tasmanian oak floors throughout, as well as "spectacular views to one of Melbourne's highest peaks, Mt. Dandenong," said Aaron Yeats, a director and auctioneer with Jellis Craig North East, which has the listing.
That's the case this week, as a discovery made in June by Philomène Wolf, auctioneer for Actéon, a small auction house from the French town of Senlis, is a small-scale work of devotion among the authenticated works by the Florentine painter Cenni di Pepo, also known as Cimabue — hailed as the first truly great creator of Tuscan painting and active in the years 1272 to 1302.
And she's done her best to preserve that history: Her vast collection of roughly 4,000 costumes and props from classic movies, intended for a museum that Reynolds was never able to sustain, will go up for auction starting June 18 at the Paley Center in L.A. Joe Maddalena, owner of auctioneer Profiles in History, estimates the first round of items will fetch $5 to $6 million.
A marathon with hundreds of lots, many representing groupings of logo table settings and kitchen- and barware, the auction was stacked in its early hours with the choicest trophies — objects whose inherent worth exceeded the sentimental value that Wright, the Chicago auctioneer, anticipated would drive people to bid on saltcellars, logo ashtrays and a zabaglione server that, as the catalog noted, was the last remaining one of its kind.
Looking to the future, potential sizeable deals include a £5.91bn acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments; a £1.91bn buyout of car auctioneer BCA Marketplace; a US$23bn acquisition of US auction house Sotheby's; KKR's €6.8bn offer for German publisher Axel Springer; an €885m acquisition of sustainable food provider Koninklijke Wessanen; a US$3.3bn acquisition of British satellite company Inmarsat; and a US$4bn acquisition of WPP's data analytics unit Kantar.

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