As Painter interrupted the auction, his BlackBerry aloft, the auctioneer eyed him but never broke patter.
The auctioneer expects sales to be closed and new ownership official within the next 30 days.
The auctioneer, Charles Hanson, was called to the house near Lichfield just before Christmas.
And he did that until he bid six, and then the auctioneer said, item withdrawn.
To attract her attention, the auctioneer included a photograph of a rare Shoreham period Palmer drawing titled Sepham Barn.
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Powers' family members discovered the memorabilia locked away last year as they prepared to sell the family home, the auctioneer's website says.
They left out works put up for auction that failed to fetch their reserve price the auctioneer's lowest acceptable bid for the work.
The auctioneer hopes the "important chair" will sell at a later date.
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Top lot at the auctioneer Christie's' next sale is the 1982 Petrus, a wine so prestigious Gordon Ramsay named a restaurant after it.
The previous big technological innovation in the auction business was the microphone, which allowed the auctioneer to reach the back of larger rooms.
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It wasn't so bad like listening to baseball on the radio and without the distraction of the scene it was easier to focus on the auctioneer's patter.
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Despite determined efforts by the auctioneer, Henry Wyndham, it raised just one lacklustre bid at the reserve price, selling to Franck Giraud, a New York-based dealer.
The auctioneer Bonhams says the carved granite step is a Sandakada Pahana - or moonstone - similar to those found in temples dating from Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura period (c400BC-1000AD).
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Now, the site attracts approximately 600 visitors per month, the auctioneer claims, though since the release of the movie "The Social Network, " which mentions FaceMash, the site has received more than 1, 000 hits per day.
The auctioneer explains that higher prices would drive the sector to increase supply and offer competitive prices for high-grade cuts such as those used for a fillet mignon or a New York strip, at the same time giving domestic consumers good availability of lower-quality, but still superb, meat.
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The online auctioneer and marketplace claims 91.8 million active users on the platform as of the end of the quarter, up from 88.4 million a year ago.
To grow, we wrote, the online auctioneer had to reach beyond small-time merchants--without abandoning them.
The main contributor to the fun was auctioneer Charlie Ross, a longtime curator who has manned the gavel for Gooding since 2000.
He became Sotheby's first American employee (the company acquired auctioneer Parke-Bernet, where he worked, in 1967) before founding his real-estate office in 1981.
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The cars rarely stop as clutches of dealers stride beside them, raising their hands as the seemingly overcaffeinated auctioneer rattles off barely intelligible numbers.
Christie soon became the most celebrated auctioneer in England.
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Charlie Ross has no mercy. as head auctioneer at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, he exhorts, implores and chides bidders into spending millions of dollars on the world's rarest vintage cars.
EBay, the world's leading online auctioneer, has a business model that unequivocally works better on the internet.
When thieves invade a London auction house to make off with a priceless Goya, the canvas disappears in the ensuing chaos, and the only one who can find it is James McAvoy's Simon, an auctioneer in league with the criminals.
The world's biggest auctioneer, which trades everything from Pez candy dispensers to forklifts, turns 10 this year.
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