The report's consigner, Donald Zammit, discovered the document in September, when he cleaned out the Manhattan apartment of his father, who had just passed away.
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A spokesman for Sotheby's, Matthew Weigman, said the German reference had been dropped at the request of the consigner for fear " the listing would only hurt the picture ."
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Brams is among three consigners of large folk art collections that Skinner, the Boston auction house, will sell on Feb . 24 and 25 ( its Web site is www . skinnerinc . com ).
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While the consigner's name is never divulged, Monsees said that if she knows the two could meet, she'll offer warnings such as " Maybe you don't want to buy that ."
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Christie's spokesman, Vredy Lytsman, said on Monday that the auction house was " still satisfied that the consigner has a legal right to sell the document, " and that the auction would take place as scheduled.
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"There's just a world of advantages to marketing cattle that way, " said John Freeman, CattleSale . com founder and president . " The most obvious one is the number of buyers that a consigner can expose his cattle to ."
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Sotheby's spokesman Matthew Weigman said the auction house listed the treaty for a 1996 sale, which alerted the FBI . " Our consigner had no idea there were title issues or that the material in any way had been stolen,"
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The Green Hornet Mustang was later owned by Barrett-Jackson Chairman and CEO Craig Jackson, and went on sale at Barrett-Jackson 2013 Scottsdale auction, but the sales failed when the winning bid price of $ 1.8 million was lower than the consigner's reserve price.
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There are 70 consigners to the Guernsey sale, but many of the lots are gifts and mementos saved by the late president's longtime personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, who bequeathed her most significant possessions to the John F . Kennedy Library in Boston and the rest to her friend Robert White.
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During a tense, protracted pause 20 minutes into the sale, attended by 1, 200 bidders, nervous consigners and gawkers, Meyer attempted unsuccessfully to tease a bid from a reluctant participant : " You look stressed _ would you like to bid ? " he inquired, eliciting laughter from the crowd.
