auctioneer
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Speaking to Reuters before the auction, Mike Provenzale, a specialist auctioneer at Heritage, said: "It's a true one-of-one item. Arguably the most significant soccer item that exists."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Off screen, she worked as a specialist and auctioneer at Lyon & Turnbull, the oldest auction house in Scotland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
He regularly supported other local causes hosting major island events, often acting as an auctioneer.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
Being an effective auctioneer, students are told, is about controlling cadence, pitch, projection and resonance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
As Tommy Lacks stood by his crop praying for a good price, Henrietta and the cousins ran around the tobacco piles, talking in a fast gibberish to sound like the auctioneer.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Their work enjoyed a revival around 2014, auctioneers said, and Bagpuss was voted the UK's all-time favourite children's television programme in 1999.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It was previously predicted by auctioneers to raise up to £5,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Leo Denham, managing director of Denhams auctioneers, said: "There has been a lot of interest from collectors in America and around the world."
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
The lots, which also include the so-called Marauder's Map from the "Harry Potter" films, have a combined pre-sale estimate of $9 million, according to Propstore, the auctioneers staging the sale.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
If there was a mother and her children on the block, she would buy the whole lot, cutting a deal with the auctioneers before the family ever went up for bidding.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
During the heady days of the dot-com bubble, McCormick was CEO of the internet auctioneering house FreeMarkets - amassing wealth as he steered the Pittsburgh-based company to a nearly $500 million acquisition deal in 2004.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
During the heady days of the dot-com bubble, McCormick was CEO of the internet auctioneering house FreeMarkets — amassing wealth as he steered the Pittsburgh-based company to a nearly $500 million acquisition deal in 2004.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
Though he eschews the "homina-homina-homina" patter known in auctioneering as "the chant," the puckish Girardo entertains bids in all four languages from the auction floor, over the telephone and via the Internet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2015
Though he was the picture of fast-talking auctioneering bluster during the event, he says that he “had a rough night” after appraising each gun at the coroner’s office a few weeks ago.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2014
O bragging, advertising, placarding, circular-scattering, auctioneering, humbuging world!
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
