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Metropress Limited, [2] [3] trading as Auction Technology Group, is a digital marketplace business listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: ATG). [4] It also publishes Antiques Trade Gazette which is a London-based weekly publication and website serving the art and antiques community and was the original genesis of the business but is now a small proportion of the group’s revenues.
The Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre was a strip club at 895 O'Farrell Street near San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Having opened as an X-rated movie theater by Jim and Artie Mitchell on July 4, 1969, the O'Farrell was one of America's most notorious adult-entertainment establishments.
Simon Chorley Art & Antiques (trading as Chorley's) is an art auctioneer and art valuation company, based in Gloucester, England.The company was founded in 1862, and conducts auction sales and carries out valuation services for private clients for insurance purposes, probate, family division and sale.
Today, the amalgamated business handles art and antiques auctions. Bonhams operates two salerooms in London—the former Phillips saleroom at 101 New Bond Street, and the old Bonham's saleroom at the Montpelier Galleries in Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge—with a saleroom in Edinburgh. Sales are also held around the world in New York, Hong ...
The Mitchells' father Robert (known as Bob), from Oklahoma, was a professional gambler. He and his wife Georgia Mae settled in Antioch, California , near San Francisco. [ 2 ] According to the Mitchell brothers' biographers, they had a relatively stable childhood; the boys were popular, and some of their childhood friends became important ...
Lyon & Turnbull is a privately owned international auction house located in Scotland. It was established in 1826 and is Scotland’s oldest auction house. The company is the largest independent auction house in the United Kingdom outside of London. The firm has a saleroom in Edinburgh with offices in London and Glasgow.
The auction house is the physical facility where the objects are catalogued, displayed, and presented to the perspective buyers through a bidding process system. An auction house The private individual or company managing the house, usually offer services such as clearances, collection of items, shipping, while also advising through valuations ...
Major auction houses have levied the buyer's premium for several decades, particularly in fine art auctions, with percentages in the region of 10–30%. [2] In real estate auctions in many European countries, the buyer's premium, if charged at all, is much less (2–2.5%). More recently in the UK, however, repossessed properties have been ...