A Tehran dealer points to a rug depicting a Persian princess nuzzling a lamb.
The dealer pointed out her amber glass eyes, cast up to Heaven for help during some early stage of her stoning.
The Brussels dealer points out that it was inspired by a model designed a few years earlier by Joe Colombo and produced in the Brianza area near Milan.
And showing these pieces in a gallery setting also suggests a seamless universe, as Shaun Cooper, a furniture dealer, pointed out — one in which, he said, "your art matches your furniture matches your house".
When Martin himself becomes rich, his dealer points out that now he would be in a position to exhibit that work – before, it might have seemed like sour grapes.
(Bags are a big business in their own right and, as one dealer pointed out to me, a crucial link between vacuum-cleaner sellers and buyers: when you run out of bags, you have to return to the vacuum-cleaner store, where the salesmen get another crack at you).
Lawyers for the lenders and dealers point out that several earlier lawsuits challenging dealer markups have been largely unsuccessful.
Toronto investment dealers point to securities scandals -- Bre-X, YBM Magnex, Livent Entertainment -- as a big reason the United States securities regulators have lost some faith in their Canadian counterparts.
Mr. Pelecanos said, "Price was kind of a holy grail guy for us," and Mr. Simon cites "Clockers," which includes both detectives' and drug dealers' points of view, as a huge influence on "The Wire".
But dealers pointed out that in dollar terms, the FTSE 100 was still down since Thursday given the decline in the pound, which despite a 1% rise on Wednesday has still fallen from around $1.4 before the referendum to $1.34.
