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After Vaughan traded it, the one-cent magenta made its way to Europe, where it was snapped up by an eccentric French aristocrat just as stamp collecting was coming into vogue.

The "studio" in question is minuscule, its rent £170 a week, and it was snapped up within 16 hours of being advertised.

Once it was snapped into place and its software installed (itself a snap), the Voodoo5 came to life and instantly produced noticeable improvements on my 19-inch display.

It's a quality embodied by Yahoo!'s newly appointed European vice-president, Dominique Vidal, who was group managing director of the shopping site Kelkoo until it was snapped up last year by Yahoo! in its ongoing acquisition spree.

But a series of buyers – perhaps put off by its status as a shrine for fans – dropped out before it was snapped up for £2m late in 2012 by Leslie BaLeslieLeslie

It was snapped up for distribution.

It was snapped up by Charles Saatchi for £40,000.

It was snapped up in just four days, for more than the asking price.

Chicago was penalized for delay of game, apparently for slapping the ball before it was snapped.

Even before it was snapped, however, the team's run had become secondary to the player's.

"But where it was snapped off, it was just wreckage and bodies".