How To Use Auction In A Sentence
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Nisan has seven Nemutan covers in total — he buys them at Internet auctions and at fan conventions whenever he finds a good deal (he paid $70 for the original).
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The auctioneer's podium faced a wall hung with six sets of mounted antlers each side of a large red deer's head.
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You estimate, I will offer your estimated value to the auction committee.
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RITA-award-winning author and WU contributor Barbara Samuel is auctioning off some critiques on eBay in order to raise money for the AVON breast cancer walk in late June.
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If the property remains unsold after the auction i.e. your bid was below the reserve price, speak to the auctioneer to register your interest before leaving the saleroom.
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The 150-acre site is being sold at public auction in five lots on June 25.
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The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal.
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Christie's had an auction offering a number of Asian collectibles, including an important bronze group of Shiva and Parvati from the Chola dynasty.
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They buy paintings at auctions, mark them up and then resell them at a vast profit to collectors.
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And all had been bought at a government auction.
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THE last written description of the Titanic before it sank is up for auction this week.
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The same agents sold a three-bedroom mews, Beiginish on Stable Lane in Monkstown, following its withdrawal from auction at €650,000.
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His car is certain to fetch a good price at the auction.
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On June 15 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, his original pastels will be auctioned, with some proceeds going towards children's charities.
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Jewish culture in flea markets, used records stores, and auctions all over.
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The auction staff can also explain the bidding process.
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The two men ended up bidding against each other at the auction.
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The house is up for auction/will be sold by auction.
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But some two dozen states collect delinquent taxes on property by holding lien certificate auctions.
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The amount obtained by auctioning the paintings will be contributed to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
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If you can buy only one case at auction, it should be vintage port.
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It is understood that the administrator is preparing an information memorandum to send to interested bidders and will formally auction the business within weeks.
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For collectors and aviation enthusiasts the early autumn of 1992 produced no less than four major auctions with an accent on matters aeronautical.
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Someday soon a Chinese ink painting is going to outsell Picasso," said Joe Lin-Hill , an emerging-markets professor at Sotheby's Institute of Art, a graduate school run by an affiliate of the auction house.
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A nude portrait of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni will be put up for auction by Chrtistie's in New York next month.
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Auction, a public sale of property to the highest bidder.
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Prices were up for all of the auction house's major art categories, including £ 766.6 million in Impressionist and modern art, up 53% from 2009; ₤ £ 602.6 million in post-war and contemporary art, up 148%; ₤ £ 569.6 million in Asian art, up 145%; and ₤ £ 334.2 million in jewelry, jadeite and watches, up 55%.
Jump in Art Sales at Christie's Points to Market Rebound
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In the early days, during the service, the congregants had the odd practice of auctioning the aliyoth or ‘privileges’ given to certain congregants, the money being used to maintain the synagogue.
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Right now, there is no legal authority to hold such an auction.
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Some experts also suggested that market - oriented IPO pricing can be used Dutch auction.
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At auction, cherished memories are trashed as treasured possessions are sifted and ascribed their price in the name of the bottom line.
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Get up early and you can watch frenetic flower auctions or meander through the flower gallery while enjoying the designer floral arrangements.
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Every year, they have a mela (a fair) there called Suarastra Sabha for the express purpose of holding an auction.
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The internet has also benefited many local auctioneers and estate agents.
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The auctioneers organized a secret ring to control the sales.
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Twenty-three financial institutions, primary dealers, took part in the auction on October 25.
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During cocktail hour, food was served from local restaurants as guests perused a silent auction that included items like a mosaic seahorse from a store called Pane in the Glass (starting bid: $30), an osteopathic exam, and the ability to be the director of the Ross School for a day (starting bid: $5,000.)
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Web based tender system to source, award and manage the total procurement process. Leverages supply and demand, through reverse auction, ensuring that goods are bought at the best possible price.
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Oh, and always trust your instinct in the auction room.
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A lock of hair believed to belong to Mary Queen of Scots sold at auction yesterday.
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A football signed by Brazilian ace and World Cup winner Rivaldo is set to be auctioned off to raise funds for the York City Supporters' Trust.
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Although it was initially expected to fetch €3m-plus at auction, the one-time choirgirl is believed to have paid closer to €2m for it.
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Boucheron won the day, and will be auctioning an exquisite brooch of diamonds, rock crystal, topaz and emeralds, with the cash donated to the new foundation.
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It was sad to see all grandfather's lovely things being auctioned off.
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Scores of you owled to let us know the auction was completed, with the book selling for a record $19,120.
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With our online auctions, we can offer something that is bespoke to the vendor.
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The Business Software Alliance has estimated that up to 80 per cent of software sold on auction sites may be illegal.
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It's got an on-air team led not only by Chow, as the host, but highbrow art experts such as gorgon auctioneer Simon de Pury, who will mentor the 14 artists competing for a cash prize of $100,000 and a solo show at the prestigious Brooklyn Museum of Art. Judges and guest judges include New York gallery owner
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This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction.
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NORWINE: The consigner signed the agreement, and that is why we ` re auctioning ...
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This South African coin garnered 51 bids on Rhode Island's eBay auction.
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This slim fast-talking man is a whiz with an auction hammer.
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Boy, he's just got those moves," auctioneer Phil Musser, from the Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance, said of parader Philip Johnson, president at Finlandia University, drawing laughs across the room.
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As a result, all order-driven securities were placed in an auction call period at 1038 GMT, with all share prices currently to be considered indicative, he added.
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It also became the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.
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You'll also find that auctions are much more exciting places than a trip to your local car showroom.
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Christie's had an auction offering a number of Asian collectibles, including an important bronze group of Shiva and Parvati from the Chola dynasty.
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Much to William Pitt's disgust Cator sold the bond by public auction to a solicitor called Yates.
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Today's auction is rather less frivolous.
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Many entertainments are planned for the night including a charity auction, games and a tombola.
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The family-owned auction firm has built its success on the excesses associated with economic fads and stock-market bubbles.
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The first major auction of this year 's crop was held last week after a poor year for growers.
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People can go to concerts, music performances and drumming workshops or a silent art auction.
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How much did it fetch at auction?
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Most, if not all, of the leading fixed-income underwriters have or are developing their own software to conduct online auctions, but few are yet prepared to use it for fear of cannibalizing their existing underwriting business.
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They arrange to auction it but bargain without the sitting tenant - a mouse.
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But there is one shining beacon of light - car auctions are booming.
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The coal secretary has told us that the coal ministry will be able to spare some of the coal that would be sold through e-auctions, provided the developer picks up the coal from the pithead," P.
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At 1: 15, Rowell Auctions 'main ringman, Max Spann Sr., instructed the crowd, "Now everybody stand and put your arms around the person next to you.
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After a months-long auction, Vivendi 's Universal Music Group has emerged as the most likely buyer for EMI's recorded-music unit, the label behind the Beatles and Katy Perry.
EMI's Music Won't Stop With Universal
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Hilton made it clear that those assets would likely be put on the auction block.
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Regular tournament players would have all manner of gadgets to show spade support together with short clubs, or long hearts, or whatever – a double in this auction usually shows a desire to penalise a minor suit.
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This might make a property being auctioned next month a steal.
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Eleven years on and the hurried portraits of Dave, Nick and Mat will this week be put up for auction at a sale which will either bewilder people, or get them hunting through drawers for that elusive bit of paper from the time they got the artist to draw them a picture.
Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction
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It is safest to buy watches and clocks from reputable dealers or auction houses.
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Ritchie is co - founder of Ritchie Bros Auctioneers, of Canada , which made its name on unreserved auctions.
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The team that won the auction but did not make enough tricks to make the contract gets the score of the lower scoring team.
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Some of the world's top museum curators, art dealers and auctioneers should be squirming this week.
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The ban means all auction marts have ceased trading in livestock.
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The Gala Ball will be proceeded by a champagne reception and dinner at 8pm, followed by the auction.
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Not all the coins consigned to this ANA auction have been catalogued, and more Wreath Cents may be added to the listing.
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The auctioneers retained possession of the car.
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Only five such models were made and it was pictured on the auction catalogue cover.
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The prime mover behind Tawa's auction is a village party secretary, Zhang Yuwang, who happens to own, he claims, the usage rights to most of the land in question.
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People seem to get carried away in the auction room.
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You can be carried along by the atmosphere of an auction and spend more than you planned.
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Separately, five pairs of tickets for each show will be auctioned online to the highest bidder via ‘ebay’ over a two-month period.
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The auction houses photographic department phone is 212-606-7240.
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The whole system of online auctions is predicated on the assumption that both buyer and seller are fair-minded and reasonable.
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On July 15, 1874, at the Ackley House stables, Mr. John Waddle offered twelve cows and one bull at public auction, but prices ruled so low that they were soon withdrawn from market.
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The 11.9-micron bale of wool was bought by the HYX Group at auction in Sydney for $675,000.
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Check what methods of payment the auctioneer will accept for the property.
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The vendor or his agent may already have decided to sell the land by auction, tender or highest offer.
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Held at the Auction Mart, the event has been hailed a resounding success.
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We are thrilled that this first test of the market with Turkish Contemporary Art as a separate category on the international auction scene was so well received and attracted such enthusiastic bidding.
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Queen Victoria's black mourning gown fetched £3,000 yesterday at an auction of the largest private collection of period costumes in Britain.
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From the drive-in theater to telephone dating to Internet-based auctions, innovation has been a principal driver of consumer adoption of a new technology.
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The company's systematic deception involved six owners and skippers of fishing vessels and an auctioneer.
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They can be yours if you are the winning bidder in Rhode Island's unclaimed property auction on eBay.
Free shipping! Rhode Island's eBay play
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Men, women and children are no longershakledshackled, put on the auction block and sold like prize cattle to the highest bidder.
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The highest price for a Strad at auction was $3.5m, paid in 2006.
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The works are up for bids until the auction closes on May 25.
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The expected net proceeds raised by auction of personalized registration mark will be used for poverty initiatives.
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The following year his museum and all his other buildings went on the auction block to satisfy his debtors.
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After valuation, the owner and experts will decide whether the item should go forward to auction.
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The auction included silverware, furniture, tapestries and other works of art.
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As a result of a title claim brought by Dennis Hopper's estranged wife, Christie's must withdraw 32 items from the sale until such time as the title claim is resolved," said a spokeswoman for the auction house last night.
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The proceedings include a silent auction, dinner catered by Stars Restaurant and, yes, plenty of dance.
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When Ebay bought the successful Chinese internet auction house Eachnet they made a good bet.
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The vendor or his agent may already have decided to sell the land by auction, tender or highest offer.
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The years in parentheses indicate when the Barber Half portions of these respective collections were auctioned.
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So it's not surprising that the Iraqi auction didn't include any production-sharing language.
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Before I knew it my arm flew up, the auctioneer banged the hammer down and she was mine!
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Parking at the auction centre is free, and there is a car park fronting the road which holds 650 cars.
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This year's Blogathon auction schtick is me posting fiction/poetry I wrote that you made something for/about; we auction off the piece and take sponsorship for the story, and all money goes to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
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Six years ago they paid $1700 for a blind African lynx at an auction because another bidder was going to put the animal down and mount it.
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The building will include an auction hall, valeting and inspection areas, a wash bay and entry control.
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Article 22 An auctioneer and his employees may not get involved as bidders in the auction sale which is arranged by themselves and may not authorize another to act as a bidder on their behalf.
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The company says the auction mart site has been chosen because it is a predominantly light industrial area.
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An anonymous private collector who bought the palimpsest for $2 million at auction in 1998 has loaned the manuscript to the Walters Art Museum and is funding the studies.
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The auction contains a treasure trove of signature pieces including chokers, tiaras, earrings and a myriad of other costume jewelry once owned by Hilton.
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In this paper we present a new sealed-bid auction scheme using the sequentially revealable commitment by the chain of one-way functions.
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Wild applause erupted when Zeng Fanzhi's painting of youths wearing absurd masks and Red Guard scarves went for $9.7 million, a new auction high for any Asian contemporary artwork.
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And the embarrassing is that a considerable number of auction sales phase of the so-called "star property" to live in when broken, complaints, disputes followed.
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Police have arrested 2 hackers who allegedly crashed Shanghai's car-plate auction system while trying to buy a license plate at the lowest possible price.
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The painting is expected to fetch £10 000 at auction.
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The sale is a big coup for the auction house.
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One of the book's most compelling sections weaves together the varied auction history of Claude Monet's "Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil," an exemplary Impressionist landscape.
An Auction Life, Self-Appraised
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Later this month two retail units on Mainguard Street will go to auction and are expected to fetch a combined price of around €1 million.
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Amongst other pop ephemera, the auction will be selling off rock stars' stage clothes.
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The auctioneer called the bids
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After the transition period, broadcasters were to return the original spectrum to the government for auction.
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The Swindon Auction Rooms are now closed but their final sale was a raging success.
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All property is lotted, photographed and described in a full-color catalogue published prior to the auction in which the property is offered.
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Individual sellers are flocking to auctions in increasing numbers because their properties have remained unsold too long via an agent.
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Russell said that he and European auction company executive Henry Beeby, who is SITA's chairman, had discussed the confusion over the new guidelines "fleetingly" and that it probably would be addressed during SITA's next meeting, which is scheduled for November.
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Such is the notoriety of the paintings, the auction at Gleneagles next month is expected to attract interest from a horde of international collectors who are expected to bid at least £30,000 for the pair.
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Typical of the infectious optimism was Michael Ainslie, president of Sotheby's auctioneers.
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The earliest known recipe for marmalade has been discovered in an 18th century book being auctioned in Edinburgh.
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Claudia amazingly ended her article with the self-fulfilling prophecy that my new novel was to be auctioned for "megabucks".
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Her job at an auctioneer's doesn't pay enough, especially as she is a compulsive consumer.
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Forbes recently scoured the art world to find out, spending weeks consulting with collectors, art appraisers, insurers, auction houses and gallery owners around the globe.
Top Billionaire Art Collectors
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There are even sections on architectural salvage, ethnic crafts and furnishings, auctions and markets.
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The company auctions excess inventory such as industrial plant and machinery online, and claims the process is secure for both vendors and bidders.
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mediatized," as the French like to say, than next week's auction of the collection of one Yves Saint Laurent, who died last June at 71.
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It was back in 1977 that Sherwood acquired two sleeping carriages at a Sotheby's auction in Monte Carlo and began the process of recreating the great train.
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Bidding at auction can be a daunting process as you go up against hundreds of other people for the same lots.
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So many people find auctions daunting and we were trying to help make that more accessible.
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The auction is likely to take several months but sources said it should be done before yearend.
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The winner of the auction will have a very important stockpile of weaponry to countersue, said Alexander Poltorak , chief executive officer of General Patent Corp., which isn't advising any of the parties in the Nortel auction.
U.S. Clears Google Bid on Nortel Patents
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Reserve prices will be set following valuation on the morning of the auction on May 8.
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There was also a case of the jitters ahead of a big bond auction this week.
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According to the stipulation, real estate business must obtain the land through the auction competitive tender.
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TOKYO—Yields on long and superlong Japanese government bonds rose to two-month highs Wednesday ahead of an auction of 30-year debt and as buoyant share prices gave investors a reason to push European debt concerns into the background.
Japanese Yields at 2-Month Highs
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Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate "extra man," a skilled practitioner of "the night shift," as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales.
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Instead, Victoria received a bundle of letters bought at auction that Hepburn wrote to her father, the British banker Joseph Hepburn-Ruston, before he died.
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At auction the purchaser may have been able to acquire the site at a marginal figure above the next highest bid.
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All of the 650 items up for auction were sold with a huge turnout on site for the Wednesday event.
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Established booksellers and auction houses take steps to ensure that books and signatures are what they claim to be.
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Then, with a final stroke of his gavel, the auctioneer declared that the auction was over.
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But a kid who mowed his lawn, a member of the Dead's road crew, had suggested that he go to the auction.
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They buy paintings at auctions, mark them up and then resell them at a vast profit to collectors.
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Right: A Christie's auction house guard stands next to the Rothschild Faberge egg at Christie's in London, Britain, Oct. 4, 2007.
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Conducting the auction of a property, the auctioneer noticed an agent talking to his client on his mobile phone.
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The ban means all auction marts have ceased trading in livestock.
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Knob Hill will not conduct a complete dispersal sale, but some horses may be consigned to future public auctions.
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These golden geese continued to be offered the way they sold best - in real-time sales with glossy printed catalogs and elegant auctioneers wielding polished wooden gavels.
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I am the timekeeper, which is to say my clock is the legitimate clock for this auction.
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It's guaranteed that at least one player will not win an auction until at least the sixth turn.
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The Internet auction system will automatically submit bids in increments one higher than the current price.
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World Golf opened in mid-December in Sherman Oaks, in a brick building that once was an auction house.
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And what became of that $100 million tchotchke, which is set to go on a remains unsold (but is not part of the auction), or Hirst himself is a part of the "investment group" that Kristina: Awesome.
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As she did, she saw the young slave girl on the auction block.
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Dealers had different means of signalling their intentions to an auctioneer.
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Watch jaylake's space for the auction of the needlepointed ornaments and other goodies.
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My main complaint is the “re-sellers” … I tried to get a few used electronic items only to get outbid by some guy who puts the same item up for auction the next week at a higher “minimum bid” or “buy now price”.
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He purchased this stamp at an auction.
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“That’s strange, every third stumble is an EBay auction …”
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The City decided to sell the land, and this summer held an auction.
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The Bank will announce on Tuesday the terms for its new gilt, to be auctioned on April 29.
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Each house as it was completed was allotted to a member either by ballot or auction.
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My father will be conducting the auction tomorrow.
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The highest auction price ever paid for a Munnings was $7.85 million at Sotheby's in New York in 2004 for "The Red Prince Mare" (1921), an image of a monumental horse being saddled before a race.
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We didn't take possession of the car until a few days after the auction.
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Several airlines are experimenting with selling tickets in cyberspace via silent auctions or last-minute fare deals publicized by e-mail.
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The auction was held in Paris with an Internet link to New York.
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After packing in his job at the auction house to become an insurance clerk, he had more money to spare and bought more turkeys.
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Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house.
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The company's stay was fairly brief, for in 1908 operations ceased and the mill was put up for auction.
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Having spent several years acquiring photographs from art fairs and auctions around the world, Bernard's collection features some of the most unforgettable shots of the past two centuries.
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Several airlines are experimenting with selling tickets in cyberspace via silent auctions or last-minute fare deals publicized by e-mail.
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But by far the worst consequence of an immediate auction would be to throw the broadcast industry on the junk pile.
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The committee is merely cosmetic and won't recommend any changes that will hurt the banks because they're Spain's sacred cows," said Alvarez, who was also a co-founder of Publica Subasta, Spain's largest complier of data on public auctions.
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The other places to get serious bargains are car auctions.
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The winning entries would be auctioned and the proceeds donated to charity.
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After following the auction for a week and not bidding, Beals, an Easton resident, snatched the piece of Plymouth syenite with just four seconds remaining, beating out bidders who had sought the famed rock since it was first offered on the Internet auction site a week ago.
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The auction of the card got over last week only. The T206 baseball card features Wagner in his teens clad in Pittsburgh Pirates uniform.
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The deeper problems in the art market have to do with the depredations of the auction houses.
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Now the auction for County defender Craig Short will begin.
