Sentence examples for hammer price from inspiring English sources
noun
The amount of the highest bid at an auction, accepted by the striking of the auctioneer's gavel.
On Wednesday the hammer price was only $450,000.
Its hammer price was £8m, just on its low estimate.
The "klubbat pris," or hammer price: twenty-seven thousand.
There it was catalogued as Tudor and sold for a hammer price of £260,000.
Interested parties bid, and a hammer price is struck in seconds.
According to PBA, the hammer price for that lot was $12,000.
The hammer price was $25 million, in line with Christie's low estimate.
Its hammer price was £16.7m – in the middle of its estimate.
The auction house, which levies a fixed percentage on top of the hammer price, made a packet.
You'll find out that the hammer price what a given lot of wine is knocked down for or closest for is not the net price.
One of our favourite cars when we first clapped eyes on the Andres Collection a few months ago, we're very pleased to see the Indianapolis towards the top of the under-the-hammer price rankings.
