Sentence examples for offered to auction from inspiring English sources

The result is the same: objects and images which are holy to some people are wrenched from the places where they were created and offered to auction houses and galleries in prosperous Western cities.Every war has its effect on the art market.

The book includes original woodcut prints by Pechstein and others, and was apparently known to Ketterer Kunst as an item offered to the German auction market decades ago before it disappeared.

But the investors say that none of those funds have offered to redeem their auction-rate notes.

The hair stylist, for example, offered to have her services auctioned off to help raise money. .

The last time "Minerva" was offered to the public, at auction in 1975, it was bought by Baron Marcel Bich, who invented the Bic pen.

Is this the way society treats their heroes who sacrificed their lives for others?" The medal was offered to a prominent London auction house specialising in militaria, Dix Noonan Webb, by an Indian collector understood to have bought it from the Delhi dealer.

BarclaysPrivate Equity offered to acquire the venerable French auction house Drouot and its weekly magazine, La Gazette.

When Sotheby's was first informed of the De La Torre claim, the auction house offered to proceed with the sale, retain its fee and put the proceeds in a special account to be divided later in a settlement between the rival claimants.

'If something was offered to us in a non-auction situation, I suppose we might make a trade.

Embroiled in a scandal over price-fixing and collusion, Sotheby's and Christie's asked a federal judge yesterday to approve a plan to offer discount certificates to auction customers as part of a $512 million settlement of a class-action civil suit.

He may soon offer to run reverse auctions for other companies, but "we wouldn't buy from any supplier that we didn't certify ourselves".