In the late 1980s, Mr. Keno said, the best examples were selling for double what they are bringing now.
To include them would, after all, bring the whole concept uncomfortably close to (whisper it) garden gnomes.The examples being sold at Sotheby's come from the collection of Helmut Rüger, a former banker who became a bonsai addict on a visit to Japan in 1980, when he was introduced to Nobuyuki Kajiwara, one of the greatest living masters.
Some 10 000 examples of the PS-26 model, for example, were sold worldwide.
Computer memory sticks and DVDs, for example, are sold in outsize packages to prevent theft.
Spanish or English sparkling wine cannot, for example, be sold as Champagne, which is produced only in France.
A Hampton Inn, for example, is sold out for the weekend at prices up to $799 a night.
A pair of jeans that costs $158 at Saks, for example, was sold to the store for $72.
Oil in Russia, for example, was sold off not for maximum profit to the country but maximum profit to the officials who oversaw privatization.
No wonder they are now eyeing the consumer-electronics market: around 170m TVs, for example, are sold each year.Hard drives are increasingly suitable for use in consumer-electronics devices as they become quieter, cheaper and more robust.
Beato's archive, for example, was sold in 1877 to the Bohemian aristocrat-turned-artist and photographer Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz — who had trained with Beato and lost his own studio in another fire.
