Word: auctioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your June 6 issue you describe the strange fate of the Schloss collection, which was seized by the Nazis and which in part is now being sold at auction in Paris...
...gold-leafed piano (cost: $15,000) that once tinkled in the high-type bagnio run by the Everleigh sisters in Chicago (TIME, Sept. 27), was bid in for $95 by their biographer, Charles Washburn, at a Manhattan auction...
Last week part of the Schloss collection was on the move again. It was up for auction at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet-draped gallery had been occupied. Bearded boulevardiers and ladies in fox furs vied for seats with dapper, sharp-eyed dealers from, far & near...
Last week, in Paris, a greying cavalry officer, the Marquis Andre de Belleval, fleetingly rustled the tatters of the once great legend of Petain. He and some 500 other sympathizers of the old man attended a public auction of Petain's books and household effects (no ribbons, no medals), which the government had confiscated after his trial in 1945. At first there was icy silence. Then the Marquis mounted a chair and, waving his cane, he demanded that the sale end at once...
...ballparks, scattering $10 credit slips through the crowds. Elsewhere, other dealers had tried similar stunts in vain. Manhattan's Herman & Ross offered free television sets "with the next 25 cars we sell"-but sold none. Seven Dallas dealers lured 5,000 people to a joint used-car auction with a $1,000 giveaway show, but sold few cars...