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2. Old Slave Mart - Wikipedia

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   Old Slave Mart. / 32.7778; -79.9284. The Old Slave Mart is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that once housed an antebellum-period slave -auction gallery. [2] Constructed in 1859, the building is believed to be the last extant slave auction facility in South Carolina. In 1975, the Old Slave Mart was added to ...

3. Christie's - Wikipedia

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   Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Geneva, Shanghai, and Dubai. [3] It is owned by Groupe Artémis, the holding company of François Pinault.

4. Uppsala Auktionskammare - Wikipedia

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   Uppsala Auktionskammare was founded in 1731 and is the third oldest auction house in the world after Stockholms Auktionsverk and before Sotheby's. It is also the third largest auction house in Sweden and organizes international quality auctions with Dutch & Flemish Old Masters, Russian, and Chinese art. In 1996, it was taken over by Knut ...

5. Slave market - Wikipedia

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   In 1859, an auction master named Z. B. Oakes purchased Ryan's Mart, and built what is now the Old Slave Mart building for use as an auction gallery. The building's auction table was 3 feet (0.91 m) high and 10 feet (3.0 m) long and stood just inside the arched doorway. In addition to slaves, the market sold real estate and stock.

6. Augusta family's final-round ticket to 1934 Masters ... - AOL

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   One of the last-known existing tickets for the 1934 Masters Tournament, shown in a protective sheath of high-impact plastic, is expected to go up for auction Dec. 6.

7. Calcutta auction - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. A Calcutta auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, [1] horse race or similar contest with multiple entrants. It is popular in backgammon, the Melbourne Cup, and college basketball pools during March Madness. [2] Culcutta auction is a sequential auction, where the bidding for each contestant begins in ...