Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rusty manure spreader or junked '67 Plymouth sagging in the sideyard. His self-pleasure is bubbly and innocent. A visitor asks whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest and priciest midsummer auction in a state where every third cowshed sells antiques. But now, on the auction block, Withington's rhythm slows. "Twenty-two thousand to 23,000, do I have 23?" He has stopped bouncing. A pause, then "Yes, now 24,000, yes, 25?" A longer pause. Here, if the article on Withington...
...Kenneth Hammitt, a veteran dealer from Woodbury, Conn., ran his eye approvingly over its shaped serpentine top and guessed that it would bring about $25,000. Then Jack Partridge, an old friend and adversary from North Edgecomb, Me., showed up with a couple of Withington's helpers. As the auction hands turned the chest over so that Partridge could check its construction, Hammitt laughed and said, "It's junk, it's all new. Go home, Jack." Partridge, an Englishman, haw-hawed delightedly. "Yes," he said. "Dreadful stuff. Such a pity...
...there: lies, low blows, sexual politics, thievery, bribery, betrayal and greed. In his first foray into popular fiction, Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine, takes us into the international art arena, where a masterpiece has come up for auction. On the block is the Marchesa Odescalchi, a sexy full-length portrait by the 17th century Spanish master Diego Velasquez of his alleged mistress. Experts predict that the portrait will bring at least $11 million, an auction record for a single painting. Among the main competitors in the battle...
This week's auction of the Iron Butterfly's possessions by the Philippine Presidential Commission on Good Government is expected to yield about $750,000 toward financing a worldwide hunt for what could total billions of dollars in Marcos assets. There were signs at the 66th Street town house, formerly the Philippine consulate, that the choicest goodies had been lifted: empty jewel boxes whose satin linings still bore the impress of glinting valuables, and clean blanks on walls where paintings by Picasso, Monet, Van Gogh and Goya had hung. Over the decade, Mrs. Marcos' New York City purchases alone topped...
...pockets"--were married outdoors on a working ranch in a small grove of oak trees by a creek. Thinking about the troubled farm economy, Rancher John Wilson looked around and said, "It's a happy thing to see all the cars here and not have it be an auction...