I called Victoria at the arts center where I had been volunteering and said, "I'm sorry I can't finish writing the auction catalog".
At the time of writing the auction has 28 bids with a top bid of €9000 (it was about 1/3 less yesterday).
"The goal was for every German design, from silver and glass to furniture and ceramics, from appliances and advertising graphics to exhibition design and architecture, to become a representative of Germanic quality," Laurie Stein, an independent curator, writes in the auction's catalog.
A week ago MG Siegler wrote that the auction process was over and Dropbox was considering bids as high as $10 billion.
Since we last wrote about the auction Google has announced the Open Handset Alliance (Android) which includes T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel; in effect Google has an existing partnership with two of the four major existing mobile players in the United States.
In an anecdote written for the auction, co-founder of the International Quilt Association, Karey Bresenhan, says Lehman's work popularized thread painting and changed the public's perception of machine quilting altogether.
Zimmerman wrote in the auction description of the Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun that he plans to use some of the money to "fight BLM violence against Law Enforcement officers, ensure the demise of Angela Correy's [sic] persecution career and Hillary Clinton's anti-firearm rhetoric". .
Describing a late-19th-century Manhattan art auction, for example, she writes: "The Knickerbocker crowd clung to their remaining old associations, which kept the growing ranks of the arrivistes, with their bourgeois respectability, at a safe distance, but death and taxes necessitated a civilized process by which to dispose of valued possessions.
"Just like artworks, what makes the value of an antique pocket watch are its brand, rarity, quality of workmanship and condition," said Ms. Kegel, who carried out months of research into the history of pocket watches to write the highly informative auction catalog.
It remained in the family, said Wyatt H. Day, an appraiser of African-Americana who wrote the catalog for the auction, which also included hundreds of other items.
