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Auctions Auctions
AUCTIONS A sale open to the general public and conducted by an auctioneer, a person empowered to conduct such a sale, at which property is sold to the highest bidder. A bid is an offer by a bidder, a prospective purchaser, to pay a designated amount for the property on sale. A Dutch auction is a... Read more
Benjamin Edes Benjamin Edes
1754-1783: Communications: Chronology IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1754-1783 IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1754-1783 1754 As postmaster general, Benjamin Franklin makes an inspection of branch offices in British North America, instructing local postmasters in how to improve mail... Read more
Jeff Skoll Jeff Skoll
Jeff SkollJanuary 16, 1965 • Montreal, Quebec, CanadaPhilanthropist, chief executive officerJeff Skoll was the first employee of the online auction Web site eBay. As president during its crucial early years of the mid-1990s, Skoll was a key player in the growth of the company from one of the first... Read more
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Sothebys Sothebys
Sotheby's. The oldest and largest firm of auctioneers in the world. It was founded by the London bookseller Samuel Baker, whose first recorded auction was in 1744. On his death in 1778, his estate was divided between his partner George Leigh and his nephew John Sotheby. The last of the... Read more
Old Master Old Master
Old Master. An imprecise but useful term employed as a blanket phrase to cover European artists (particularly painters) from the Renaissance up to about 1800; the term is applied also to their works, so an Old Master can be a picture as well as a person. Often the term carries an implication of... Read more
Josh Billings Josh Billings
Josh Billings pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818-85, American humorist and lecturer, b. Lanesboro, Mass. After a roving life as farmer, explorer, and coal miner, he settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as an auctioneer and real estate dealer. In 1860 he began to write humorous sketches and homespun... Read more
John Fries John Fries
John Fries c.1750-1818, American rebel, b. Montgomery co., Pa. After serving in the American Revolution, Fries became a traveling auctioneer. Strongly opposed to the federal property taxes levied (1798) for a possible war with France, he stirred the Pennsylvania Germans into an uprising (called... Read more
Philip Hone Philip Hone
Philip Hone 1780-1851, American diarist and politician, b. New York City. With his brother he built up a successful auctioneering business, which he later abandoned for politics. He was mayor of New York City in 1825. His diary (1828-51), opinionated and shrewd, contains valuable records of life in... Read more
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pinochle , card game, probably derived from bezique , that was developed in the United States in the 19th cent. Pinochle is played by two, three, or four players, with a deck of 48 cards containing two each of the aces, face cards, tens, and nines of all four suits. The cards rank (in descending... Read more

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