But it is considered bad form to bring "sold" stickers and put them on items before they are purchased, as some pickers are known to do.
Estimated to bring $700,000 to $1 million, the work sold to David Benrimon, a New York dealer, for $1.59 million.
The number of cases brought for selling unsafe food in 2010-12 – 1,533 – looksmallll given the scale of the problem.
And Fontana's 1965 "Concetto Spaziale, Attese," a white canvas with his signature slashes that was expected to bring $5.1 million to $7 million, sold for $6.7 million to another telephone bidder.
The colorful Cubist painting, which was expected to bring $18 million to $25 million, sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for $28.6 million, a record auction price.
Establishing what price it might bring if sold is difficult, but both sides have given rough estimates of the property's worth as around $1 million.
We will see players we can bring or sell or go on loan but it is not our first important thing at this moment.
A signed typescript of Thatcher's famous speech, in which she quotes the words "Where there is discord may we bring harmony", sold for £37,500.
At Sotheby's, Batoni's "Susanna and the Elders," a history picture from 1751 expected to bring $6 million to $9 million, sold to a telephone bidder for $11.4 million, also a record price for that artist at auction.
This spring he has decided to capitalize on the high prices that top works by Andy Warhol have been bringing by selling one of his many canvases by this Pop master.
