Auction house gets sale after rock paper scissors contest

From: Charleston Daily Mail | Date: May 5, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

NEW YORK - Winning a playground game of rock paper scissors has paid off handsomely for the august auction house Christie's.

The auctioneer made a handy profit Wednesday by selling four paintings for $17.8 million, having earned the right to conduct the sale by beating rival Sotheby's in what's been called the most expensive game of rock paper scissors ever played.

Takashi Hashiyama, president of Maspro Denkoh Corp., which owned the artwork, had asked Sotheby's and Christie's to each choose a weapon - rock, paper or scissors - because he could not decide which auction house to use for the ...

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