auctioneer
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"A three-year plan gives you some certainty about what you're going to get," agreed retired livestock auctioneer Alwyn Jones, showing his pedigree Welsh Black cattle.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Ann Thorpe, an auctioneer at Dartmoor Auctions, said: "I think you do sometimes get ironic buys, you know, and things like people's secret Santa presents and that kind of thing."
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
“What you’re looking for as an auctioneer is someone who’s truly fearless onstage,” says auctioneer Lydia Fenet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Schneider, the retired national guardsman, was interested in the class more to cultivate a hobby and hopes to find a local auctioneer to offer his services to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Whoever offers the most money gets whatever the auctioneer is selling right then.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
More than 100 silver items, dating from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, had been expected to fetch up to £23,000 when they were offered for sale at Elmwood's auctioneers in London.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Best's medal was sold for £305,200 by auctioneers Bonhams in London after it had been offered by a private collector.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The collection grew to more than 200 items and the auctioneers said that "what began as a father's labour of love became a much-loved visitor attraction".
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
"Set within a wild, windswept moorland, King and Queen took on a new life," said Alice Murray of auctioneers Christie's.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 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
Peter also had a knack for presentation, knocking the stuffiness out of traditional auctioneering with pop-up sales at the Pacific Design Center and Santa Monica Airport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
For one thing, she later said, she felt a spiritual void, and auctioneering “no longer felt correct.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
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
It was called an "auctioneering of honor," and a base way to come by a promotion.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob Dolson Cox
