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British and Irish country house contents auctions are usually held on site at the country house, and have been used to raise funds for their owners, usually before selling the house and estate. Such auctions include the sale of high quality antique paintings , furniture , objets d'art , tapestries , books , and other household items.
There are many thousands of such court orders issued each year, and items that can't be returned to their legal owner are auctioned off at local auction houses all over the UK. Police auctions are an established route used by regional police forces across the country to dispose of proceeds of crime , lost and found , seized, and unclaimed ...
The police only sell lost and found items directly at auction. The correct term is Proceeds of Crime auctions as featured in the BBC documentary series Ill Gotten Gains. Proceeds of Crime auctions are an established route used by regional police forces across the country to dispose of proceeds of crime , lost and found , seized, and unclaimed ...
Euro Auctions was founded in 1998 in Dromore, County Tyrone, by Derek Keys and his brothers. [1] In August 2021, its sale to Canada's Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers for £775 million was announced. [1] The sale was called off in April 2022 due to no realistic prospect of approval by the UK competition watchdog, the Competition and Market Authority ...
Phillips, formerly known as Phillips the Auctioneers and briefly as Phillips de Pury, is a British auction house. It was founded in London in 1796, and has head offices in London and in New York City. [2] In 2022 it was owned by the Mercury Group, a Russian luxury goods company. [3]
A sex offender who police said tried to "financially and emotionally manipulate" his victims has been jailed for 25 years. Stephen Gallagher, of Normandy Avenue in Colchester, was found guilty by ...
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An English auction is an open-outcry ascending dynamic auction. It proceeds as follows. The auctioneer opens the auction by announcing a suggested opening bid, a starting price, or a reserve for the item on sale. Then the auctioneer accepts increasingly higher bids from the floor and sometimes from other sources, for example online or telephone ...