What is "auction houses"

Usage examples of "auction houses".

The Club and the reputable auction houses don't deal in children for obvious reasons.

I wanted to check around at other auction houses for current prices.

You have no idea how hungry the auction houses are for prime merchandise.

Also, I get the list of prices realized from all the leading auction houses and find out what the lots are bringing in New York and on the West Coast and in London.

My mother has her panties in a twist for fear that Grandfather is going to blow a valve over the pages, which would throw a real spanner into our negotiations with a coalition of auction houses.

Not at one of her own homes, not at one of the auction houses, but your hotel.

Nor, it seemed, from enquiries at the art auction houses, was any painting of wild duck - or not a painting of any consequence -coming up for sale.

Although she rarely found any ancient bronzes of museum quality in the big public auction houses, the catalogs provided good indicators of the changing fashions in public taste that inevitably had an impact on museum acquisition and display.

He had first pick of all of the prospective slaves in the entire empire, even before the opulent auction houses of Cneas.

Although there are some private show and sales rooms in the House of Cernus, and private auctions and exhibitions, intended to interest prospective clients, are held, most slaves, of the House of Cernus and others, are sold in one of the five public auction houses, licensed and taxed by the Administrator of Ar.

Seventy-three lots, and by the time the last was sold, an acceptable portion of the ransom money had been washed, cleaned, and ironed through the auction houses' financial departments, and transferred into Argyll's bank account.

There were the auction houses, the bookshops, the private collectors .