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After years of neglect and ignominy, including having their movements cannibalized for spare parts and their cases melted down, old wristwatches, particularly models made from the early 1920s through the '40s, have come into their own. Auction houses are getting "record prices" for vintage Rolexes and collectible Cartiers, according to Daryn Schnipper, a watch expert at Sotheby Parke Bernet. Sotheby's had four major auctions in New York in 1984 that prominently featured wristwatches; another, just last week, established several new highs including a record for a 1935 Cartier Tank...
After a public auction of the bar's equipment, the last night in the club's existence was a complete sellout. A standing-room-only crowd forced many loyal fans to wait outside until late in the night, while those regulars lucky enough to squeeze in drowned their sorrow in alcohol...
...takeovers is that business has turned sluggish as a result of the slowdown in U.S. population growth. Thus the easiest way for food companies to grow is to take over other firms. And as the Carnation purchase indicated, cows that are too contented may find themselves on the auction block...
...could recall none larger. The night before, I went to a charity ball attended by hundreds of handsome people in gowns and tails and by an elephant, a tiger and a leopard, also in tails. The cats appeared to have been doped. The evening's highlight was an auction that raised $30,000 in ten minutes and offered a trip to Europe (which for some reason included Egypt) and a necklace worn by a good-looking brunette named Kimberly. After the necklace went, they auctioned off Kimberly's dress. Before any more parts of Kimberly could be sold...
...charter expires next April, and it has decided to sell its holdings in Redditch to a single buyer rather than auction them off piecemeal. A dozen secret bids have come in from land-development companies, construction firms and pension funds. The price is expected to be nearly $100 million, or $130 million...