Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council also voted $60 Abby Smith '54 as reimbursement for an English bicycle mistakenly sold last year at the Student Government auction. The money will be taken from either the Grant-in-Aid fund, sponsor of the auction, or the Student Government treasury...
...been told, although I have no documents to prove it, that one of the Presidents cleaned out the attic of the White House and had an auction on the Pennsylvania Avenue side, and scattered many wonderful antique pieces from one end of the country to the other...
...Sold at auction: the world's second largest oil painting,* the Panthéon de la Guerre, 18,090 square feet of World War I battlefield scenes, completed in 1919 by a task force of more than 120 French artists and last exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. Purchaser: Baltimore Restaurateur William H. Haussner, who bought the painting for $3,400 from the storage warehouse where it had lain unclaimed for the past seven years...
...first folios of Shakespeare, and the famous Bay Psalm Book, first book printed (1640) in Britain's American colonies, which he bought for a "reasonable" $151,000. While still a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Rosy made his first big find in a Philadelphia auction room: the long-lost first edition of Dr. Johnson's Prologue, written for Actor David Garrick. He bid it up 10 at a time until he carried it away triumphantly for $3.60, later turned down a $5,000 offer for it. Last March Rosy announced his most famous sale: 73 prized volumes...
Last April, Williamson tried to sell 12,000 carats on the open market. The trade said he had only one big offer. The trouble was that Williamson wanted to auction his diamonds, instead of setting fixed prices as the cartel does. Furthermore, dealers were afraid that the cartel might freeze them out entirely if they bought Williamson's stones...