Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural history. His interest in armor also began early. When he was six years old he visited the home of one Carlton Gates in Yonkers, stood for half an hour in rapt contemplation of a beautiful Maximilian helmet. Four years later Carlton Gates died, his effects were sold at auction. Ten-year-old Bashford Dean insisted on being taken to the auction, was heartbroken when the cherished helmet went for more money than he could afford. Clutched in his small and studious fists he did carry away from that sale two engraved daggers which became the nucleus of the Dean...
...demand for native work has increased several hundred per cent in the last dozen years, and with the demand has grown the number and fame of U. S. etchers. British prices are still the highest: a Cameron has sold for $4.000, whereas $1,125 Paid at an auction for Frank Weston Benson's Pintails is still the U. S. record. But few prints, abroad or in the U. S., sell for more than $100 and the majority bring less than $50 at the time of issue. "Prices subject to change without notice" was the announcement on a catalog...