auction-room

Scrutinized in Crunch Time LONDON -- At the New Bond Street headquarters of Sotheby's, more than 600 people crowded the auction-room aisles and milled in the street Friday night, vying to watch the first major art auction since the credit crisis hit global financial markets and the U.S. dollar weakened further.

Art Auctions in London 2007

The jewels and pictures were brought to the hammer in an auction-room in Hexham -- the countess disappeared from public ken, and the newspapers ceased to chronicle her extraordinary movements.

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

Women rarely appear in the book auction-room, but leave their orders to be executed through a trusted broker, and many a collector has found himself suddenly obliged to soar aloft to dizzy heights in quest of some prize, on being thus lifted and pursued by one of the representatives of an unseen and unknown member of the gentler sex.

Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Henry H. Harper

The auction-room, on the other hand, calls forth courage, promptness, and the spirit of adventure.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

While these more opulent victims of book-madness vie with one another in the auction-room, the rational bibliophile sits in the gallery and views with silent awe and amazement the scrimmage over some apparently trifling volume that wouldn't fetch ten cents, but for the fact that it is "unique," and that so and so paid a stupendous sum for it at some previous sale.

Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Henry H. Harper

If the essayist lived in these days, and followed the customs that now obtain, he would send the sword and the staves, along with the other useless and (to him) worthless tokens and remembrancers of the dead and gone Montaignes, to the auction-room, and cheerfully pocket the money they brought.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

Manuscripts, in public and private libraries; old books picked up on dusty bookstalls, or carried away as prizes from the battlefield of the auction-room; even pencillings on the inside of tattered bindings, -- all have been laid under contribution.

Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry Edmund Goldsmid

So _real_ is this imitation that a fine flounce of 4 yds. 32 in. wide was sold at a London auction-room a few months ago, as "real old Limerick," for £60!

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

Wine was a common article of sale there in the early days, and in the latter career of the house it became famous as an auction-room for land and house property.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

I have visited every shop in the trade in search of prices for this book before procuring the auctioneer's catalogue, and was aghast at the terrific sums asked for oftentimes indifferent specimens in comparison to what was paid in the auction-room.

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes