Sentences with phrase «auctioneers say»
«Looking for another bid, please, Francois, at $ 350 million,» the auctioneer said, and the crowd laughed at his audacity.
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«Look at the coats on these beauties,» the creepy auctioneer said.
When I got the highest bid, the auctioneer said, «Which one do you want?»
The auctioneer said, «Well, do I hear $ 10?»
At $ 25, the auctioneer said, «Come on, folks, he's worked his tail off in his short life - been one busy little guy.
So you can think of this as having an auctioneer saying «Do I have a higher bid?»
Not exact matches
«Diamonds of this quality, with this extraordinary depth and sophistication of colour, and of this size are unfathomably rare,» the auctioneer's website says.
A keryx was a town - crier, an auctioneer or a herald (an «announcer», shall we say?).
A New York artist says her reputation has been ruined after she was wrongly pegged as the painter of a 1972 canvas by an online auctioneer who hawked the work on eBay with her name and biography.
Brian Kearney, 43, a fund - raising auctioneer, said, «I didn't think Eliot Spitzer deserved a second chance.
«Everyone get ready,» said Tracy Davidson, NBC10 anchor and emcee for the night, alongside Jeff Hammond, a professional fundraising auctioneer.
The auctioneer will say anything to sell the dog for the highest price.
I was amazed by what the auctioneer and his assistants would say to sell the dogs.
The auctioneer dismissed the injury as nothing serious, saying the dog just needed to walk on grass and eat better food and it would straighten right out.
But then on the other hand, there's a thing where if you go to the auction house in game there's an actual auctioneer whose actually saying things like, doing the actual auctioneer talk `... sold to the man in the back» like there's actually someone saying that in - game.
Lin on Thursday filed a petition to intervene in Phillips Auctioneers v. Chang, saying the painting is rightfully his.
«Tonight was not the night of the Hoovers,» said the auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, afterwards.
Last evening's Post War sale at Sotheby's carried a strong and confident energy straight from the start as the Principal Auctioneer and the Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art of Sotheby's, Tobias Meyer held fantastic pace, pausing just enough to draw out another bid with his signature «I have five million — say five million - five»!
«At the right level, the market exists,» said Tobias Meyer, the head of Sotheby's contemporary art department worldwide and the evening's auctioneer.
«We saw global participation tonight, with strong bidding from the Americas, and are very pleased with establishing so many artist world records in this sale which celebrated British art and our long relationship with artists and collectors,» said Jussi Pylkkänen, Global President and lead auctioneer.
After the long sale, Christopher Burge, the auctioneer described himself as «exhausted but happy» and said «it was a fantastic evening.»
In post-sale comments, Diana D. Brooks, the president and CEO of Sotheby's, said the auction house was «delighted» with the results and Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer, said that the auction was «very solid.»
It was executed in 1947 and Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer, said after the sale that the work had been auctioned before at Sotheby's in the mid 1990s when it sold for about $ 500,000.
Despite the failure of its star lot to sell, the auction set six auction records and Christopher Burge, the auctioneer, said he was «thrilled» with six the results as more than 85 percent of the 54 offered lots sold for $ 59,757,000, a bit over the auction's pre-sale low estimate of $ 58,320,000.
Lord Dalmeny, Sotheby's UK Chairman and Auctioneer for the «Art for Grenfell» sale said: «The Grenfell disaster has had a profound effect on all of us.We are very glad to be able to do something to help provide support to the victims.»
Christopher Burge, the auctioneer, said it was «a pretty, exciting night, a very exciting night with lots of activity,» adding that «for the most part there was strong bidding, in some cases furious bidding.»
«The art market is alive and well,» said Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer and worldwide director of Sotheby's contemporary art department.
Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen nonchalantly rolled out its provenance by saying that it had been «previously in the collections of three Kings of England.»
«I'm thrilled to bring my years of experience to Leslie Hindman Auctioneers as the firm grows in Atlanta,» said Mary Calhoun.
«It is every auctioneer's ambition to sell a Leonardo and likely the only chance I will ever have,» said Pylkkänen.
Guarantees have played a crucial role in the escalation of art prices, said dealers, advisers and auctioneers.
«It was just amazing,» said a dazed Christopher Burge, honorary chairman of Christie's in America and the evening's auctioneer.
Sotheby's now says that Lorna Kelly, who came to Sotheby's in the 1970s, was the first female auctioneer to lead an evening sale in New York, not Ms. Newman.
The price escalated by five hundred thousand dollars at a time... all the way to $ 61 million, when the auctioneer raised his gavel and said, «Fair warning and selling...» Burge was about to give the emerald disaster to Yeh's man.
«It's very, very difficult to value,» said Bruno Jaubert, the associate director of Impressionist and modern art at the Paris auctioneers Artcurial, who in June sold Duchamp's 1910 - 11 painting «Nu sur nu» to an unnamed non-European institution for $ 1.4 million.
She says auctioneers are embracing the group's NAA Live, a Web site created to accommodate online auctions and coverage of live auctions via Web cams.
Erica Brown, a spokeswoman for the National Auctioneers Association > in Overland Park, Kan., says her trade group doesn't believe online auctions will make live auctions obsolete.
Some auctioneers on the site even conduct online auctions simultaneously with traditional live auctions, Brown says.
«There will still be a place for the mom - and - pop auctioneer,» LFC's Lange says, «but he or she will be conducting small dollar - volume local auctions that have local target markets.»
In a sequential auction, the auctioneer stands up and says, «We're putting the first loft up for sale,» and starts the bidding and he keeps chanting until the bidding stops.
But while most would expect distressed sales to be the reason that property auctions are currently flying high, that couldn't be further from the truth says Joff van Reenen, Lead Auctioneer and Director of specialist real estate company High Street Auctions (HSA).
Joff van Reenen, Director and Lead Auctioneer for The High street Auction Company says residential auctions aren't necessarily the way to go for every property.
«You can only do so much gardening» says the man who brought auctioneering to the forefront of the market over the last forty years.
He has always had a high profile in the community, whether it be fundraising, assisting with local events, volunteering his time, or stepping in to assist as an auctioneer, the board says.
«In the past, there was a fear of competition between brokers and auctioneers, but now companies are recognizing that by partnering, they both have a great opportunity to make a living in a challenging market,» Longly says.
One proponent is Carl Montgomery at Comas Montgomery in Murfreesboro, Tenn. «Online auctions are extremely convenient for buyers, and allow us to expand a property's exposure to out - of - state buyers,» says Montgomery, who is one of the 37 members of MarketNet Alliance, a group of auctioneers who share an online bidding platform.
When working with sellers, most auctioneers create a listing agreement and market the property during a three - to four - week auctioning campaign, says Steve LaRocque, co-owner of Pacific Auction Exchange, Pleasanton, Calif..
Unlike many auctioneers, North American Auctioneers sells only real estate, says Marienwald, a sales rep since 1989, a broker since 1997 and an accredited auctioneer of real estate, one of only four in Canada, auctioneers, North American Auctioneers sells only real estate, says Marienwald, a sales rep since 1989, a broker since 1997 and an accredited auctioneer of real estate, one of only four in Canada, Auctioneers sells only real estate, says Marienwald, a sales rep since 1989, a broker since 1997 and an accredited auctioneer of real estate, one of only four in Canada, since 1999.
He says he's happy with the services provided, describing North American Auctioneers as «professional» and «results oriented», and being «sympathetic to his seller's needs and wants.»
Auctioneer Paul Fosh said it was the cheapest house he had sold for many years but thought it could be a shrewd investment.