Sentence examples for treasure auction from inspiring English sources

We hang about in the grubby "trash or treasure" auction rooms shunned by the usual mob of TV antique experts.

Now, after generations of safekeeping, the family is selling its treasures at auction starting Thursday, creating a buzz of excitement among Americana experts.

A 1623 copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, letters from Queen Elizabeth I, and John James Audubon's "Birds of America" will be among the literary treasures on auction at Sotheby's in December.

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Most people try to get their hands on the treasures at auctions so the basics can be picked up super cheap.

Treasure trove The auction room could not count on this in advance.

He added: "We are doing all we can try to trace the stolen treasures, liaising with auction houses, stately homes, dealers and those with specialist knowledge.

Dumping a museum's best and finest treasures into an auction to raise money is like going to the pawnshop to cover the rent.

Now the Forbes family is selling some Americana treasures in an auction of 203 lots on Wednesday at Christie's in New York.

A22 SCIENCE/HEALTH Lost Treasure to be Auctioned Roughly 10,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain and pottery are now the subject of an emerging dispute between the entrepreneur who assembled the trove and archaeologists who say he is plundering the world's artistic patrimony to line his own pockets.

By proceeding with the sale, for $36 million, of two bronze animal fountainheads that China considers stolen treasure, the London-based auction house managed to upset the Chinese government and spark a wave of nationalist sentiment from China's tempermental netizens.