Word: auctioneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Model T In Center City, Minn., went up for auction a virgin 1917 Model T Ford which its late owner Oscar Peterson had driver only 5 9/10 miles, had bought only to avoid further "pestering" from automobile salesmen...
Year ago the little art museum of Bonn on the Rhine cleared out of its cellars a collection of pictures that had been gathering dust for nearly 30 years, put them up at public auction in nearby Cologne. One grimy picture of a plump young woman in a gilt crown and scepter went up on the block and was knocked down for 700 marks ($300) to Dutch Dealer David Katz. Back to Amsterdam, after 270 years, the picture went. It was cleaned and instantly recognized as the original Juno-a bargain at $250,000. In search of some such price...
...chapel. Last week the public learned that next May it may pay admission-for charity-to inspect the house, the wooded walks, the unsurpassed rose gardens of "Inisfada." home of the late great Roman Catholic Utilities Tycoon, Nicholas Frederic Brady. After the contents of the mansion are sold at auction, "Inisfada" will become the property of the Society of Jesus, to be used as a "house of studies" for young men of that order...
...subject of the stamp collection revived. Oliver considered that by this time Jane had forfeited her rights in it, refused to acknowledge her claim. When he went home he looked over the album, rediscovered the Antigua stamp, decided it must be valuable. It was. But at the ensuing auction, where more than ?6,000 was bid for it, proceedings were halted by Jane's injunction...
...Oliver's shady behavior, by Jane's counter-machinations, by the untoward fact that Edith, Jane's girlhood friend and business partner, who owned a controlling share in Jane's prosperous theatre, fell in love with Oliver. Altogether it took two trials, a dramatic second auction, a happy and an unhappy marriage, brisk detective work and some stiff psychological third degree before the Antigua stamp found its rightful owner...