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A post office called Belknap was established in 1855, and remained in operation until 1909. [2] Belknap appears in the 1876 Atlas of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. [ 3 ]
The company's founder William Burke Belknap the elder (1811–1884) was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, the son of Morris Burke Belknap the elder (1780–1877) and Phoebe Locke Thompson Belknap (1788–1873) and is not to be confused with William Burke Belknap the younger (1885–1965) or William Burke Belknap Jr.
William Burke Belknap [1] the younger (1885–1965) was the son of William Richardson Belknap and Alice Trumbull Silliman. He was an entrepreneur in the family of William Burke Belknap, the elder (1811–1884), son of Morris Burke Belknap of Brimfield, Massachusetts, who was engaged in the iron furnace industry and died in 1873. [2]
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The most straightforward form of an all-pay auction is a Tullock auction, sometimes called a Tullock lottery after Gordon Tullock, in which everyone submits a bid but both the losers and the winners pay their submitted bids. [5] This is instrumental in describing certain ideas in public choice economics. [citation needed]
Mecum's auctions attract a varied clientele, [16] including a large number of non-bidding spectators, who make up approximately 90 percent of attendees. [3] Events receive anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 attendees. [9] The inaugural auction event, known as the Rockford Spring Classic, was held at the Greater Rockford Airport in 1988.
Freeman's-Hindman (formerly known as Freeman's and Samuel T. Freeman & Co) is an American auction house founded in 1805 by Tristram B. Freeman, a British print seller, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The house operated under Freeman family ownership until 2016 when it was sold to a private partnership.
William Richardson Belknap was born in Louisville on March 28, 1849 [1] to William Burke Belknap and Mary Richardson. [5] His younger brother was Morris B. Belknap. [6] He graduated from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1869, and in 1873 he spent a year traveling in Europe with his younger brother Morris.