Word: auctioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Linwood M. Andrews, Los Angeles collector, paid Adolph Brugier, of Santa Barbara, $100,000 for Titian's The Madonna, Holy Child and Titian's Daughter, Lavinia. Mr. Brugier, while studying in Italy 30 years ago, bought the painting at an auction, paying the equivalent of $150. It has been identified as a Titian supposed to have been lost in a fire in Madrid...
...medals and decorations of Jules Vedrines, famed airman, were to be put up for auction at Paris. The auctioneer, however, refused to sell them. Said he: "I am a wounded soldier myself, and could not stand to see a fellow soldier's cross being auctioned to the highest bidder. The official auctioneer's duty consists of selling stuff given him for that purpose, but this time I took it upon myself to act differently...
...proceedings were almost an auction. Manhattan offered $150,000 St. Louis offered $150,000 and 130 hotel rooms at reduced rates. Chicago offered $165,000 plus the proceeds of the sale of the concessions at the Convention Hall. San Francisco offered $200,000 flat. Manhattan raised the ante $55,000 (see THE PRESS) to $205,000 and promised to bear the expense of preparing the Convention Hall. San Francisco raised her bid $5,000, to $205,000. But Manhattan was pulling stronger. On the third roll call the hammer fell: Sold to Manhattan; delivery on June 24 next...
With spirited bidding on every number, 10,000 volumes from the library of the late W. W. Nolen 'S4, affectionately known as "the Widow" to generations of Harvard undergraduates, have been sold this week in the auction rooms of William K. MacKay in Boston...
Although practically all of the valuable books and antiques belonging to the late William Whiting Nolen '84, the "Widow" of Little Hall have been crated and shipped for auction, there is one looked room in Little Hall which has not been disturbed by the movers...