Word: auctioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
Mostly, the first Lord's official home is furnished with antiques of a quality which made them costly even when bought at auction by an astute namesake of the British Admiralty's famed Samuel Pepys. In the great hall, between gleaming white Corinthian columns, long-dead British Admirals look down from heavily encrusted frames. After running this gantlet, guests arriving for an Admiralty ball admire the graceful, branching staircase, pass on to the drawing room, its walls hung with paintings of the voyages of Captain Cook. The amazing gilded furniture is the cele brated "Fish Set" presented...
...creditors of Joseph W. Harriman, who is now in a Federal penitentiary for misapplication of his bank's funds, William R. Willcox, trustee in bankruptcy for the personal Harriman properties, last week asked a court's permission to disinter the body of Alan Harriman, auction off the cemetery plot. Permission was refused...
...home with friends in Northampton, Mass., offered for sale "The Beeches," where she and the 30th President lived after they left the White House. Some of the household furnishings she put in storage. Last week she was traveling in Europe when the residue odds & ends were put up at auction in a Northampton gymnasium. Auctioneer George Howard Bean had sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais...
Last week the Washington Art Galleries announced an auction sale of M. Ghods's personal effects. Listed were 153 separate items, including 144,656 sq. ft. of Persian rugs and carpets, miniatures, manuscripts, brocades, silverware, paintings, etc., the rugs alone dutiable at $72,233.35. Customs men suddenly sprang to life...