Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as jigsaw, gingerbread or General Grant, is the mammoth, decaying, 917-room United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.* Two years ago, the old "States" foundered in white-elephantine failure, closed its doors forever. Last week the entire furnishings of this ornament of an age went on the auction block. It was a great day for the fanciers...
...first auction in 23 years of the once fabulously expensive chinchilla; 2) the first formal sale of U.S.-raised chinchilla skins. Mindful of the $20,000 to $100,000 that chinchilla coats once brought, some furriers glibly forecast a fantastic $250 a pelt...
...also the man who stopped an auction in mid-frenzy when the bidding went higher than his shrewd sense of values told him was sound. Nonetheless, he had some frantic figures to brag about...
...auction, in December 1922, of 1,574 Jersey shipyard homes owned by the U.S. Shipping Board-a record 12-hour session when Day stopped the clock for two hours to avoid selling on a Sunday...
...largest absolute partition sale of city real-estate lots in the history of the country": a four-day, 1918 auction of the 1,500 Bronx lots that made up the old Ogden Estate. Other famous-name estates partitioned by Day: Van Cortlandt, Astor, Harkness, Gould, Schwab, Doherty, Juilliard, James Gordon Bennett...