Article: LAST AUCTION HEROES; Three buyers risk being going going goners..but hammer out a bargain.(Features)

Article: Big art month kicks off with Pounds 100m auction
Evening Standard - London;  February 5, 2008 ;     615 words ... ... PAINTINGS worth more than Pounds 100 million have been sold at auction on the first day of ... contemporary art sales the auction house is expected to generate Pounds 288million a higher ... Bacon's highest auction price was Pounds 3.6 million. His ...

Article: The great pounds 30bn auction The chancellor has ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... multi-billion pound privatisation programme ... sell billions of pounds worth of taxpayers ... frenzy similar to the auction for third generation ... had hoped to raise pounds 2bn from that auction. Ultimately he netted more than pounds 22bn. Not everyone ...

Article: Buyers find status on a plate; S1KHS joins B34TLE in ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... ultimate status symbol at a pounds 3 million sale of car ... people packed into the auction room but despite the ... as bidders paid up to pounds 20,000 for the plate ... put a bid in before the auction started to beat the time ... on the telephone, for pounds 4,800. "The New York ...

Article: pounds 6m auction bucks the trend in property ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  April 10, 2008 ;     560 words ... ... Bootle, which sold for pounds 88,000, more than ... at 142-144 sold for pounds 478, 000 and 52-56 ... opportunity, sold for pounds 425,000. After the ... bidding. It was a noisy auction with a great buzz . James ... months. Our first two auctions of 2008 have been well ...

Article: Fonteyn treasures fetch over 650,000 pounds at ...
The Scotsman;  December 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... across the world at an auction which raised more than pounds 650,000. The life ... was documented by the auction of 189 items, which ... fetched the most at the auction were from the remarkable ... spring, 1967, fetched pounds 167,000. In that ...

Article: Beethoven quartet manuscript exceeds million pounds at ...
AP Worldstream;  December 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... than 1 million pounds (US$2 million) at auction Friday. The quartet ... as 1.5 million pounds. The auctioneer ... fairly often at auction, but that no manuscript ... setter in Friday's auction was a volume of ... bidder for 119,840 pounds (US$204,000 ...

Article: Castle's curios go up for grabs; pounds 1m auction ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  May 25, 2004 ;     608 words ... ... the items up for grabs at the pounds 1m Chirk Castle auction. Next month's sale features ... the castle and its estate for pounds 5,000 -an enormous sum in ... early 20th century -estimate pounds 300-pounds 500. Nine leather ...