Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed wine-colored rooms of Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods), famed London auctioneers, the voice of Captain Sir Henry Floyd was heard last week. It lost none of its discreet fervor through much use. Standing tall and straight on the rostrum, Sir Henry was presiding at the auction sale of one of the richest art hoards of modern times: the collection of the late Banker Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb). Banker Schiff, who died in 1931, had built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week...
...Dorchester, England, last week, items from the Hardy family collection were put up for auction, including two bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...
...painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania Museum's severest critic, Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes of Marion, Pa., who himself owns the most magnificent Renoirs in the U. S. Setting foot within the museum for the first time since he began to picket it, (TIME...
What the growers wanted James Morrison to do was stop the chains from using strawberries as loss-leaders to get customers into their stores. First thing he did was to forbid buyers to use the Hammond Auction for anyone but their own chain...
...bevy of "oohing" and "aahing" high-school girls, Staff Car No. 2 sped out to Wellesley, to discover the reactions to Spring of a cross-section of girls attending that college. Enticed from a dingy living-room where they were smoking what they termed "butts," and playing auction bridge, a dozen Wellesleyites crowded around the Staff Car, all eager to be interviewed...