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Sold by the beauteous Duchess of Kent: household special-effects accumulated by the late Duke. The Duchess, now in smaller quarters, has no room for them. At auction in London, a Sèvres china dessert service brought ?609, a pair of porcelain vases ?1,260, a walnut settee ?1,785. Total receipts...
Ancient vintage cars, deserted by their owners, find their way to the auction block almost daily. Such sterling buys as a Model 34 Marmon a 1933 Pierce Arrow, and a 1932 Cord as well as slightly later models have been offered...
...took the tuxedoed auctioneer 2¾ hours to sell 60 sleek thoroughbreds for a record $1,553,500. The setting was impressive; a pale half-moon hung over the infield at Santa Anita; there were as many rows of press tables as at a heavyweight fight. Powerful spotlights flooded the auction ring in front of the clubhouse, making the horses nervous as they were led in one by one, numbers glued to their hindquarters. Everybody who amounted to anything in Southern California's racetrack and cinema industries (an almost interchangeable cast of characters) was there...
...industry last week shook like a badly frightened rabbit. There was much to be frightened about. Retail fur prices were being cut generally from 25 to 50%. An auction of 25,000 ranch-raised mink brought prices 30% below those of last December, and only 60% of the pelts were sold. Prices of fox, hardest hit of furs, dropped so much at auctions that fox farmers were holding their pelts off the market...
...Shakespeare First Folio copy (there are some 200 of them) went at auction to an anonymous New Yorker last week for $22,000 -a good price, but way below the record...