Word: auctioneers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TWENTY-TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ROBERT BROWNING - United Feature Syndicate ($10). Hand-printed edition of the hitherto unpublished letters which were sold at auction in Manhattan last April for $40,000, were afterwards reprinted in the Woman's Home Companion...
...Civil War. Young Tom Clarke went into the linen business. His real life, though, was spent buying & selling pictures and furniture. He started the nucleus of his great collection of U. S. portraits in 1872. In 1899, dissatisfied with what he had bought, he sold most of them at auction for $235,000, began collecting all over again. In 1924 a sale of his early American furniture brought...
...AUCTION...
Died. Mantis James Van Sweringen, 54, younger and more retiring of Cleveland's famed bachelor brothers of railroading; of heart disease; in Cleveland. Because of his illness he did not accompany his brother Oris Paxton Van Sweringen to the public auction in Manhattan last September where, with fresh backing, they regained control of their $3,000,000,000 rail and real estate empire for $3,121,300 (TIME...
...loot of 1897, there were 2,400 pieces, sold at auction by the British Admiralty. The British Museum bought 289, all it could afford. German museums snapped up 1,085 pieces. The rest drifted to private hands. Most of the greatest pieces were portraits of kings in their high-necked coral headdresses. What kings it was impossible to say, for Benin had no written history until the coming of the English...