That, added with this spring's robust auction market could lead to blockbuster sales for Hepburn's collection.
Only 1, 700 go to the U.S. It's not for sale, except on the auction market.
When I asked him how natural-history objects had entered the American fine-arts auction market, Herskowitz credited himself.
The ISE is an auction market for options trading on an electronic platform.
His presence at the centre of the start of the photography auction market inspired Mr Garner to start collecting.
Natural pearls again proved to be a dynamic force in the auction market.
Clearly, this only represents the very top echelons of the art auction market and not the broader art market.
Despite the astronomical price, rings with such pedigree could bring in a nice profit on the auction market or private sale.
Last year, a shortage of fish caused the wholesale fish auction market in Hull to close, with the loss of 16 jobs.
One-of-a-kind creations by the Indian designer Viren Bhagat are among the most coveted of contemporary jewelry designs on the auction market today.
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Sports memorabilia collectors aren't exactly looking ahead with rabid enthusiasm to Barry Bonds' record 756th home run ball hitting the auction market.
On one hand, the high-end auction market looks as strong as ever.
The international auction house said the first quarter is traditionally a loss period because of the seasonal nature of the art auction market.
Colored diamonds are very desirable on the auction market right now.
The festival is an important auction market for purebred camels, and as well as commanding high prices, award-winning specimens can confer immense prestige on their owners.
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And, because these aren't widely known blue chips, you'd have to assume that there isn't much of a secondary auction market for them--or for other stars in the Grenache constellation.
Christie's - the world's number one in the auction market - has agreed to co-operate fully with the US Department of Justice, and in exchange has been granted a "conditional amnesty".
Until now, the only way to buy a Formula One Ferrari was on the secondary auction market or through Ferrari's exclusive, four-year-old F-1 Clienti program, to which clients must be invited by the company.
Regulators are looking at how much UBS insiders knew about the auction-rate market problems and what they disclosed to clients who bought the securities between August 2007 and February 2008, when the auction market fell apart.
Mr Koch, an energy magnate and brother of major US industrialists David and Charles Koch, also said he would use the settlement to help eliminate fraud in the wine auction market and would create a website to help spot fake wines and their dealers.
Banks aren't picking up the slack in demand in the auction rate market.
The auction at the market - which trades millions of dollars of products daily and is a popular tourist destination - began at 05:00 local time.
Meanwhile, the market for auction-rate securities is a shadow of what it was.
If the market for auction-rate securities had been a bank, you would have said that it had suffered a run.
That rise is a natural outcome of Google's auction-based advertising market and doesn't require collusion between the two Internet giants.
The sales were made even as the market for auction rate securities froze up, rendering the holdings impossible to sell without a loss.
"With the weak Italian bond auction, the choppy market and everything else coming out of Europe, it's a sense of 'here we go again, '" said Joe Bell, senior equity analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
Perhaps the most notable aspect of the sale, from a market perspective: While the rule of thumb for jewelry at auction is that on the secondary market pieces bring only a third of their original price, this collection reaped a hefty profit for the seller.
Art indices are certainly helpful to a point and deserve a post of their own, but they only track art offered at auction, less than 50% of the overall market, and typically only successful sales at auction, which account for an even smaller slice.
That beats the rest of the carpet market, where auction prices on all but the oldest pieces are at or below levels of two decades ago.
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