Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christie's London auction rooms J. Pierpont Morgan's vast collection of miniatures was sold, in line with his program of getting his estate into the most liquid position possible before his death. Assembled abroad by his father, the 795 tiny, jeweled pictures were bought mainly by European dealers and collectors for $349,285, about two-thirds of what the elder Morgan is supposed to have paid for the collection...
Sold for $700 at auction in Denver were the trinkets of the late Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor (TIME, March 18), remnants of a fortune estimated...
...once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last week bought it at auction...
This, the eighth day of the auction, marked the last and saddest chapter in the Mauretania's career. Her furniture and paneling of oak, mahogany and walnut, in French, Italian and 18th Century English styles, were disposed of. Now up for sale were such sentimental souvenirs as lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion...
...Pullman (Wash.) after J. L. Blalock had showed off before an auction crowd by stepping up to a bull and knocking him silly with a right to the jaw, police charged Blalock with wearing brass knuckles under his glove...