This paper studies the incentives for market concentration of online and traditional auction houses. Would sellers and buyers be better off if two separate auction houses merged? It is supposed that each auction house has a separate clientele of sellers and buyers. Sellers value their identical units at 0, while...
SEATTLE -- Authorities have recovered a stolen 18-carat gold bookmark that reportedly was given to Adolf Hitler by his longtime mistress, Eva Braun. Christian Popescu, a Romanian national, was arrested Tuesday outside a Bellevue Starbucks after trying to sell the bookmark to an undercover agent for $100,000,...
LONDON -- Eleanor Rigby: fact or fiction? That question, which has bedeviled Beatles' fans for decades, may be answered in part by a 1911 hospital payroll sheet to be auctioned in London on Thursday. The document, sent by Paul McCartney in 1990 to the...
Today's hand, from the Poland vs Belgium under-28 youth teams match at the first World Mind Sports Games is from the bridge equivalent of a Hammer House of Horrors film. Juniors seem to have an anathema to the Green "PASS" card, especially when opponents employ a strong artificial opening One...
A RARE piece of Tyneside rock and roll history is going up for auction. A vinyl record, pictured, produced in the early 1960s by the band that went on to become the Animals, is going up for sale. It is one of only six copies of...
Byline: By ADAM JUPP Chief Reporter THIS rare record can send music buffs back to the future. The vinyl was recorded in the early 1960s by the band that went on to become the Animals, Tyneside's most famous rock and roll band. It is...
Pandolfini Auction House has organized at the new office in Milan Italy the auction sessions devoted to Design, Modern and Contemporary Art. MILAN, Italy, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- At Pandolfini's Auction House, in Florence and Milan, two of the most important art auctions in Italy will take...
What time can we check in, Damien? After the record-breaking success of his auction at Sotheby's in September, there is more good news for Damien Hirst. I'm told that BritArt's controversial poster boy, left, whose mega-money sales tend to provoke almost as much criticism...
PARTY OF THE WEEK *** On Sunday night, the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane opened its doors to the 56th Variety Club Showbiz Awards. While guests tucked into the green tea, crme brulee and petits fours that ended the three-course dinner, an auction to raise...
Christine Skidds is one of the approximately17,000 people diagnosed with primary brain cancer in the US each year(another 100,000 are diagnosed with secondary brain cancer). In her onlinejournal ( www.caringbridge.org/visit/christineskidds ), Christine writesabout living with cancer. She explains, "I used to be worried about notbeing pretty enough, skinny enough, not...
BOLTON, Mass., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.skinnerinc.com/ - Skinner, Inc., one of the nation's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it has set a new world record for a rare illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. At the recent Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, which took...
GENEVA -- An unprecedented collaboration between a European coin seller and a U.S. certification company is the latest evidence that the international collectible coin market is booming. Numismatica Genevensis SA NGSA, one of the leading European rare coin auction houses has contracted Numismatic Guaranty Corporation NGC to certify approximately 300...
THE STATS ARE GRIM, but there is a silver lining. The construction of new homes nationwide fell for the fourth month in a row in October, tumbling 4.5 percent. This followed a 3 percent drop in September. Builders can't afford to build if there aren't enough banks...
Kennedy Wilson Auction Group Sells 14 Luxury Estate Homes BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the national real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, conducted an auction of 14 luxury residences located in lovely Escondido, a thriving urban...
Hudson & Marshall Will Raise its Buyer Agent Commission from 2% to 3% to Attract More Buyers to Florida Auction MIAMI, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Overbuilding and a high rate of foreclosures toppled Florida's housing market, making it one of the worst in the nation. With ample...
Shelter Emergency Shelter Program Inc. has been serving the community for over 36 years. In addition to public funding to support our shelter and child care services, we rely greatly on support from the community. This support comes from corporations, businesses, civic organizations,...
The following editorial appeared recently in the Washington Post. Using the waning days of power to ram through rules and regulations to burnish a legacy or pre-empt a successor is a time- honored tradition of outgoing administrations. That President George Bush's White House is no exception was...
Long before he became a celebrated traveller, novelist and controversialist, Bruce Chatwin was a 'Sotherboy' - a precocious young art expert for the famous auction house. Fifty years later, his colleagues recall Chatwin's Bond Street days with affection On a crisp winter morning 50 years ago...
THE super-rich are safeguarding their money in the credit crunch by investing in vintage cars. While house prices have fallen by 14 per cent in a single year, the value of classic cars has doubled or even trebled over five years. At...
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