At the heart of this tussle is the issue of whether auction listings are copyrighted material.
In the case of the Man Ray forgeries, as detailed by Stephen Vincent in the February 1998 issue of Art and Auction magazine, relatively few people were burned.
I noticed in a winter issue of The Wine Spectator that 3rd quarter auction prices for Haut Brion were averaging $512 the bottle, for La Mission Haut Brion, $314 the bottle.
Last month KPN raised €3 billion in a rights issue, after the Netherlands' auction of 4G spectrum proved unexpectedly expensive.
How the reallocation will be paid for remains an issue, because the auction of D Block had been expected to raise more than $3 billion.
Fraud is a huge issue," says Larry Schwartz, president and general manager of Auction Universe, the online auction arm of Chicago-based Classified Ventures.
A roll trade takes place between the day the Treasury announces it will auction off a new issue of a government security and the day the auction occurs.
Questioning the price of art is not very popular practice among art collectors and NUMBERS hopes to provoke the issue of overstatements of the art auction world.
The publishers sold advertising space inside the book jackets, "offering everything from male corsets to remedies to help cure constipation," writes John Sutherland, the British literary historian, in the fall issue of a quarterly published by Bonhams auction house.
Last week, when the Treasury tried to auction its most recent issue of government bonds, almost no one was buying.
The December 1926 issue of Auction Bridge Magazine contained an article by "King of Diamonds".
