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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.
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 ]
A 2010 TechCrunch article about penny auction site MadBid called this business model "a license to print money." [3] Eighteen months later, a reporter for The Guardian wrote, "legions of penny auction sites have folded, including Swoopo, Rapid Bargain and Bid Boogie." The reporter spoke with a representative for MadBid, who denied that the ...
W. B. Belknap, also known as William Burke Belknap (the elder) (1811–1889), not to be confused with his grandson William Burke Belknap (the younger) (1885–1965) or great-grandson William Burke Belknap Jr. (1893–1952), was the founder of W .B. Belknap and Company, an early iron and nail business at Third and Main Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, which evolved by 1840 into the ...
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]
The dollar auction is a two player Tullock auction, or a multiplayer game in which only the two highest bidders pay their bids. Another practical examples are the bidding fee auction and the penny raffle (pejoratively known as a "Chinese auction" [6]).
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.
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.