From 1949 to 1956 he was on the staff of " The Sunday Times "; his colleague Godfrey Smith later recalled, " He wrote the Atticus column and the Autolycus saleroom column.
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The letter was sold at Hamptons International Salerooms in Godalming, southern England, for 24, 150 pounds ( dlrs 38, 640 ), to a buyer identified only as having a Beverly Hills address.
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On 28 September 1886, at a General Meeting held in the Mather's Saleroom, it was unanimously resolved that in future the club be called "'Southport Football Club " '.
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In 1834, when the East India Company ceased to be a commercial enterprise, and tea became a'free trade'commodity, tea auctions were held in the London Commercial Salerooms on Mincing Lane.
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"The show alerts people to the idea of auctioning, and the sort of things that go through our salerooms, " said Hannah Goring, a spokeswoman for Bonham's Auctioneers in London.
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The documents fetched nearly double the estimate in brisk bidding because " such charming letters rarely come on the market, " according to Marc Burridge, owner of Clevedon Salerooms near Bristol in southwest England.
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The medieval Brading Town Gunne is at the coach house after being stolen in the 1950s and rediscovered in a saleroom and returned not to the town gunne room but to Nunwell by an anonymous well-wisher.
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Out of tune and bearing a few bumps and scratches, the baby grand piano is a highlight of the sale of Marilyn Monroe's personal effects at Christie's new salerooms at Rockefeller Center on Oct . 27 and 28.
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A limited edition magnum of champagne believed to be one of 12 selected to mark the 1981 marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana is expected to fetch thousands of pounds ( dollars, euros ) at auction, a saleroom official said Wednesday.
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One of his favorite items, because it's unpublished and something very rarely seen in a saleroom, is the Gershwin three-page autographed score, part of a waltz for an early 1930s musical play called " Pardon my English ."
