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As a result, consumers will tend to wait for one another to join the auction.

The Empire State will join the auction set for Dec. 17.

The telecoms regulator Ofcom has given mobile operators four weeks to join the auction for superfast 4G/LTE mobile broadband spectrum.

Other old master dealers say it will be a shame if they join the auction world because they have one of the last surviving galleries in New York devoted to important early Italian and French painting.

But in a filing on Tuesday, DoCoMo recused itself from evaluating bids for AT&T Wireless, a move widely understood to put DoCoMo itself in a position to join the auction.

And it agreed to lower to $75 million from $85 million the minimum amount by which a competing bidder must top its offer if it wants to join the auction for T.W.A.

Ms. Brooks, 49, joined the auction house 13 years ago from Citibank, where she had been a lending officer.

But those in the hall, plus 1,000 online bidders joining the auction through cyberspace, seemed to see value in the most mundane bric-a-brac.

And some of the biggest media moguls have joined the auction of Vivendi Universal's American entertainment assets, even though the firm has decided not to include its Universal Music operation as part of the sale.

Bids were made using "spotters" who patrolled the event wearing pouches, from which they sold £50 raffle tickets, and carrying wands that lit up when someone joined the auction, lending a theatrical feel to the event.

To share the risk and the profits, Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash, Manhattan dealers who were formerly both experts at Sotheby's, had joined the auction house to give Mr. Weisel a guarantee, an undisclosed minimum sum regardless of the outcome of the sale, that was said by art experts to be around $40 million.