Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Caraway home, a Colonial building valued at $40.000. in the Washington suburb of Riverdale. Md., was placed on auction to satisfy a $22,500 mortgage...
Last week Brother Tikytt's psalter appeared in Manhattan as a principal item in an auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. Not in two decades, it was claimed, had such an important sale of manuscripts and incunabula occurred...
...only Anglo-Saxon manuscript in the U. S., a volume of 149 vellum pages written by two scribes about 971. For it Barnet J. Beyer, Manhattan bookdealer, paid $55,000. For $45,000 he also got what was described as "the most important early illustrated book ever sold at auction"-Boccaccio's De La Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes. Translated by Pierre Faivre, it was the first dated book (1476) with copperplate illustrations. Disposal of the Boccaccio was complicated by the competition of an anonymous collector in Muncie, Ind., whose bids, up to $40,000, were made...
Liquidation seemed likely, perhaps an auction of the properties. From posters at hairpin curves and blind bridges no more would Fisk's stocky little boy, ready for bed, candle in hand, peer down the dull macadam way with his grinning advice...
...cent are cut by a quarter to one half. The Lombard rate (interest on security loans) is reduced from 10 to 9 per cent. Parallel with these reductions, the Reichsbank is to lower its discount rate from 8 to 7 per cent. Landowners are protected against forced auction sales by the provision that no bid under 70 per cent of the property's valuation need be accepted. Some taxes are reduced but the turnover is raised from 85-100 of 1 per cent to 2 per cent. Measures against the flight of capital abroad are strengthened by the provision...