Sentence examples for auction material from inspiring English sources

Christie's also continued to auction material that he stole, Ghiya said.

He tracks other collections, including domes in the Manhattan apartment of the artist Gray Foy (Foy died in November, and Doyle New York will auction that material in September), as well as those in museum period rooms like one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displaying an aviary for wool birds, and another at the Brooklyn Museum, which has sprays of seashells and wool foliage under glass.

In recent years, studios, under severe financial pressure, have grown more interested in auctioning show materials.

GE is also setting up a separate site for its 500 suppliers and hopes to see big cost savings in holding auctions for materials purchases.

Buyers will decide June 10 and 11, when Sotheby's holds two unprecedented auctions of materials from the estate of Katherine Hepburn, who died last year at the age of 96.

Kindles, iPods, old-school headphones - all were available in the agency's latest online surplus material auction, along with other things passengers left behind, like clarinets and bicycles, or items the agency no longer uses, like old copiers and a snow blower.

Last November, the government of Russia's Ivanovo region outbid the filmmaker Lars von Trier at a Sotheby's auction of archival materials of late Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky, a native of the region.

In many cases, these auctions offer good material at wholesale prices.

Christie's has had considerable success with its auctions of such material in London and Los Angeles, though it is shuttering its middle-market Christie's East saleroom in New York by the end of the year and relocating the departments.

Mr. Fleming applauded the decision by Butterfields, saying: "We are happy that Butterfields has voluntarily removed the material from auction.

Although anyone can purchase the material at auction, Mr. Caplin said the family was selling the medal and documents with the hope that they would end up at a public institution.