An auction house is a business establishment that facilitates the buying and selling of assets, such as works of art and collectibles.
3-504: Bonhams and Butterfield was a large American auction house , founded in 1865 by William Butterfield in San Francisco . It was purchased in 1999 from Bernard Osher by online auctioneer eBay for $ 260 million. In 2002, it was acquired from eBay by British auctioneer Bonhams and operated under the name Bonhams & Butterfields for about ten years. It now just goes by Bonhams. This United States corporation or company article
6-528: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Auction house The auction house is the physical facility where the objects are catalogued, displayed, and presented to the perspective buyers through a bidding process system. The private individual or company managing the house, usually offer services such as clearances, collection of items, shipping, while also advising through valuations, and on fixing reserve amounts. Two auction houses emerged in eighteenth-century England that persisted leading
9-522: The market. Initially specializing in the auctioning of books and literary goods, Sotheby's was founded in 1744, and in 1766 Christie's opened by auctioning paintings and decorative arts. Auctioned goods may vary from fine wines to toys, from furniture to entire estates. As the range of goods sold at these auction houses expanded, they opened auctions over the phone first, and on the Internet after, making possible purchasing goods fully remotely. One of
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