The sale is a big coup for the auction house.

这次拍卖额对该拍卖行而言是极为难得的成就。

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Helen Porter of the auction house said: "[the owners] had no idea what they had."

拍卖官海伦。波特说：“卖主并不清楚他们拥有什么。”

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But even the auction house could not have foreseen the bidding frenzy that followed.

但就算是拍卖行本身也没有预料到随之而来的叫价会如此激烈。

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For about six months Wallace Turnage worked in Hector Davis's slave auction house helping organize the auctions every day.

华莱士·特内奇在赫克托·戴维斯的,奴隶拍卖行工作了六个月,每天帮助组织拍卖

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Hector Davis owned a two-story slave auction house and jail on 14th and Franklin Streets, just two blocks down the hill from Thomas Jefferson's glorious capitol building of the State of Virginia.

赫克托·戴维斯,在第十四和富兰克林大街,拥有一栋两层的奴隶拍卖行及监狱,仅仅距离托马斯·杰斐逊,那雄伟的弗吉尼亚州议会大厦,向山下两个街区远

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The auction house said the collection went for twice as much as the original estimate.

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"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry "asked for a really big gun, " the auction house said.

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More than a quarter of the online bidders were new to the auction house.

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