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Last week one of the two known surviving copies of the global map turned up for sale at London's famed auction house, Sotheby & Co. Owned by a Polish count, the map (11⅜ in. by 16⅜ in.) roused a gleam in the eye of Manhattan Rare Book Dealer Hans P. Kraus. He pushed the price up to $35,000 and walked off with...
...their dark days of austerity. Britons were apt to find few experiences more painful than a successful art auction. At sale after sale, they saw their treasures knocked down to the prosperous bidders, who came mostly from the U.S. "It was.'' says London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, "a slaughter." But the slaughter is now over: Britons have not only been bidding princely sums to keep their Old Masters at home, they have even been bringing some that have been absent for decades back across the Atlantic...
...Robert Andrews was bought at Sotheby's for $364,000-the highest auction price paid for an English painting since the 1920s. Geoffrey Agnew has been paying between $30,000 and $56,000 for Turners and Constables, and is happy that he has done so ("Most reasonable," he says, in view of his subsequent profits...
...Election. In Hillsboro, N.C., John D. Larkins Jr., campaigning for governor, attended a livestock auction, waved so heartily to a potential voter that the auctioneer yelled "Sold," presented him with a $15 calf...
Stuffed Shirts. In Washington, the General Services Administration announced it would auction 40,000 lbs. of feathers that had been declared surplus to the national stockpile of "critical and strategic materials...