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Welcome to Hard Times
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By E.L. Doctorow
| Quote: | A day or two later and the sun not even up, Bert Albany rapped on the door until I heard him, and with the sleep still in my eyes I went with him up the street to Zar's place. The faro dealer was lying on the floor there, ashen white, and a big red rent in his vest where he had been stabbed. Jenks was standing nearby, clutching the collar of that little hunchback, his gun was drawn and sticking in the man's back. Bert told me the faro dealer had been lending out money to people at high rates, sometimes winning it back at his table. He had a list, Bert saw it, of the men indebted to him. The hunchbacky had been sitting there losing all of his loan, and when it was gone he jumped up and stuck a knife in the dealer's belly.
The dealer was quiet, concentrating on his breathing, he was in his senses enough to know to lay still. I went out to John Bear's shack. It showed even then the signs of resentment, the door was splintered, a board or two was gone from the roof. I woke the Indian up and gave him to understand there was someone needed doctoring. He came with me up to the saloon but when he saw it was Zar's place and the Russian waiting at the door, he turned on his heel and went back the way he came. (-- pgs. 172-173) |
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Uncle Fred in the Springtime
Hardcover
By P.G. Wodehouse
| Quote: | "I wish you wouldn't keep saying 'Lord B.' It sounds as if you had been starting to call me something improper and changed your mind. Where was I? Oh, yes. When I'm at home, I don't get a chance of little games of cards. My wife objects."
"Some wives are like that. You start out in life a willing, eager sportsman, ready to take anybody on at anything and then you meet a girl and fall in love, and when you come out of the ether you find not only that you are married but that you have signed on for a lifetime of bridge at threepence a hundred."
"Too true," sighed Mr. Pott.
"No more friendly little games with nothing barred except biting and bottles."
"Ah!" said Mr. Pott.
"We could do far worse," said Lord Bosham, "while we're waiting for these impostors to get up steam, than have a friendly little game now."
"As your lordship pleases."
Lord Bosham winced.
"I wish you wouldn't use that expression. It was what counsel for the defence kept saying to the judge at my breach-of-promise case, every time the latter ticked him off for talking out of his turn. So don't do it, if you don't mind."
"Very good, your lordship."
"And don't call me 'your lordship,' either. I hate all this formality. I like your face...well, no, that's overstating it a bit...put it this way, I like your personality, bloodhound, and feel that we shall be friends. Call me Bosham."
"Right ho, Bosham."
"I'll ring for some cards, shall I?"
"Don't bother to do that, Bosham. I have some."
The sudden appearance of a well-thumbed pack from the recesses of Mr. Pott's costume seemed to interest Lord Bosham.
"Do you always go about with a pack of cards on you?"
"When I travel. I like to play solitaire in the train."
"Do you play anything else?"
"I am fond of Snap."
"Yes, Snap's a good game."
"And Animal Grab."
"That's not bad, either. But I can tell you something that's better than both."
"Have ----------------" said Mr. Pott.
"Have you -------------" said Lord Bosham.
"Have you ever ---------" said Mr. Pott.
"Have you ever," concluded Lord Bosham, "heard of a game called Persian Monarchs?"
Mr. Pott's eyes rolled up to the ceiling, and for an instant he could not speak. His lips moved silently. He may have been praying. (-- pgs. 139-140) |
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Balzac
A Life of Passion
DVD
| Quote: | Novelist Honore Balzac: (Arriving at his first assignation with the woman who is to become his next mistress, the great man gazes at the roulette tables in dismay). Here I am.
Laure: You've shown up at the appointed hour to save me. Tonight I'll lose all I want.
Balzac: (rhetorically)This is a gambling house?
Laure: Mm-hmm.
B: Why did you ask me to come here on our fist rendez-vous?
L: You are here to bring me luck. You know the saying, 'Unlucky in love, lucky at cards.'
B: Unlucky in love? Must I deduce from you that you intend to make me suffer?
L: Have you ever heard of biribi?
B: Biribi? No.
Croupier: Nineteen.
L: Lend me some money.
B: (Emptying his pockets) That's all I have.
L: We'll make do with it. If the number comes up, we'll make 64 times more than we bet, and it will.
Croupier: Number eight wins.
L: What did I tell you? |
Plus de Roués resplendissants.
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Henry VIII
DVD
| Quote: | (Having quietly and strangely, non-violently, disposed of his astute German wife Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII bellies up to the baise for a quick game of cards).
Hank (admiring an opponent's hand while engaged intermittently in the signing of various death warrants): Hoy! How did he find that card? I thought I was the only man allowed to have four queens!
(Later on, during a meditative moment in the game, indiscreet 17-year-old Kathryn Howard is introduced to the now fat, lecherous, obstreperous, oily old yoicks of a king).
Hank, that ruder Tudor (leering): Do you play, Kathryn?
Kathryn: I understand the rules, Your Grace, but I do not play. Cards are not proper entertainment for ladies.
Hank: And what is proper entertainment for ladies?
K: Needlework, prayer and painting.
H: Quite right, quite right...(clearly impressed)
Dealer: How many cards?
H: Uhm, I'll take two.
K: No, Your Majesty. Take three. Sir Nicholas changed two, which means he's looking for hearts. Sir Francis wanted just one, which means he's looking for a pair, and the player sitting west --?
Thomas Culpepper (one of Hank's most trusted bodyguards): (shyly) Thomas Culpepper.
K: ...looks so glum, he wishes to fold.
Hank: I'll say three. |
No one leaves this table empty-handed. Hank takes the lolly, Kathy takes the king and Culpepper, and British revellers are soon treated to a double execution.
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Casablanca
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| Quote: | Knock On Wood
Performed in the movie by Dooley Wilson
Say, who’s got trouble
We got trouble
How much trouble
Too much trouble
Well now don’t you frown
Just knuckle down and
Knock on Wood
Who’s unhappy
We’re unhappy
How unhappy
Too unhappy
Oh! Oh! that won’t do
When you are blue just
Knock on wood
Who’s unlucky
We’re unlucky
How unlucky
Too unlucky
But your luck will change
If you’ll arrange to
Knock on wood
Who’s got nothing
We got nothing
How much nothing
Too much nothing
Say nothing’s not a awful lot
But knock on wood
Now who’s happy
We’re all happy
Just How happy
Very happy
That’s the way were going to stay
So knock on wood
Now who’s lucky
We’re all lucky
Just how lucky
Very lucky
Well smile again and once again lets
Knock on Wood |
More on Rick's famous fix on the Cafe Americain roulette table at Loaded Dice.
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The White Countess
Merchant-Ivory eye candy with actors who have defied custom by
mastering the otherwise lost art of diction.
DVD
| Quote: | Shanghai, 1936, shortly before the Japanese invasion
Thomas: You know, sir, I was thinking of having a little flutter.
Todd Jackson: Oh, good! I'm glad to see a little recklessness entering your spirit, Thomas. This city is starting to work on you at last.
Thomas: I'm glad to see you so cheerful.
Todd: As a matter of fact, I was getting kind of anxious because you see I've come here to have a little flutter myself.
Thomas: Are you thinking of placing a large bet?
Todd: Substantial enough. Thank you, Jimmy. You know, Thomas, there comes a day when you say there are some things you may want to do in life and you'll never do them unless you take a risk. Hold everything that you have in your hand and just take a risk.
Thomas: Sir, are you intending to place a very large bet?
Todd: There are some in this city who would not consider it large, but it's just about everything I have.
Thomas: ...but I think that ---
Todd: No, we're not in Vermont, Thomas. Don't cluck around me like an old hen. |
Vanessa Redgrave, the mum, sister Lynn and one or the other of the ubiquitous acting Richardson girls, who show the acting world How Its Done. No binmen in this family - not allowed. Ralph Fiennes and his smoldering stare do their best to keep up.
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Classic western
DVD
| Quote: | Mexican kid: State lottery, senor?
Fred C. Dobbs (played by the inimitable Bogart): Beat it! I ain't buying no lottery tickets!
Kid: 4,000 pesos is the big prize.
F: Get away from me, you little bugger!
Kid: The whole ticket is only 4 pesos. It's a sure winner.
F: I ain't GOT 4 pesos.
Kid: Buy a quarter of a ticket for 1 peso silver.
F: If you don't get away from me, I'll throw this water right in your face!
Kid: Then 1/10th of a ticket, senor, for 40 --- (Dobbsy throws a glass of water in the kid's face). -- (undaunted) Senor, buy 1/20th. 1/20th costs you only 20 centavos. Look, senor, add the figures up. You get 13. What better number could you buy? It's a sure winner.
F: Yeah? How soon's the drawing?
Kid: Only three weeks off.
F: Alright, give me a twentieth so I don't have to look at your ugly face.
Kid: Gracias. Come again next time. |
Thus is ol' Dobbsy able to stake himself and a partner for a chance at the mother lode - and they'll get one, too - if only they can stay square with the man leading them to the magic mountain, a spry, goat-footed Walter Huston, who cannot help stealing the show. Even girls like this one.
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Doc Holliday
The Life and Legend
Hardcover
By Gary L. Roberts
| Quote: | (Wyatt) Earp was the source of the story of another encounter between Doc that became of the mainstays in the Holliday legend. He said Doc and Kate had departed Fort Griffin because of an argument over cards while he was en route back to Griffin from Clark:
Doc Holliday was spending the evening in a poker game which was his custom whenever faro bank did not present superior claims on his attention. On his right sat Ed Bailey, who needs no description because he is soon to drop out of this narrative. The trouble began, as it was related to me afterward, by Ed Bailey monkeying with the deadwood, or what epople who live in cities called discards. Doc Holliday admonished him once or twice to "play poker" -- which is your seasoned gambler's method of cautioning a friend to stop cheating -- but the misguided Bailey persisted in his furtive attentions to the deadwood. Finally, having detected him again, Holliday pulled down a pot without showing his hand which he had a perfect right to do. Thereupon Bailey started to throw his gun around on Holliday, as might have been expected. But before he could pull the trigger, Doc Holliday jerked a knife out of his breast-pocket and with one sideways sweep had caught Bailey just below the brisket. (footnote omitted) (From Gone to Texas at p. 86) |
More on the rootin', tootin' Texas prairie at the University of Texas College of Liberal Arts Frontier Forts website.
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Country Life
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Grate Expectations
By Jessica Fellowes
Feb. 2/07
| Quote: | Laying the Perfect Fire
Unfortunately, with endless conversions of houses into flats, not to mention the strict laws on coal smoke introduced in 1952, many of us no longer have working chimneys in our houses. Even if we do, the finding of logs, the carrying of dirty coal and the unpleasant smell of firelighters can be off-putting. Asking people for the 'best' way to lay a fire can create a debate heated enough to start the kindling off. Personally, I think there is nothing like the comforting smell of peat on an Irish fire. But in Britain we must stick to logs - however, the choice is as wide as the different woods which all have burning abilities and smoke effects. Mrs Danvers recommends ash as she says it can be 'burnt young and green, and doesn't spark.' The simplest - and most effective - fire-laying method is crushed newspaper first (but not too much, just a single layer), firelighters to get it started, overlaid with kindling, a lottle coal and a log on top. Burning coal requires less attention once it has got going and gives off a stronger heat. Otherwise, just keep throwing the logs on. You might need to nurture the fire for the first half an hour or so, but it is worth it for the loving warmth it gives back for the whole evening.
Finally, do not forget to have your chimney swept regularly. The best time is in early autumn, just before you start to light the fires again. Find your local recommended sweep at the National Association of Chimney Sweeps. And make sure you shake the sweep's hand for luck! (-- p. 55) |
| Quote: | An Ode to a Real Fire:
Logs to Burn
Beechwood fires burn bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year:
Stow your beech for Christmastide,
With new cut Holly laid beside.
Chestnut's only good, they say,
If for year's 'tis stored away:
Birch and firewood burn too fast,
Blaze too bright and do not last;
Flames from Larch will shoot up high,
Dangerously the sparks will fly.
But Ashwood green and Ashwood brown
Are fit for a Queen with a golden crown.
Oaken logs, if dry and old,
Keep away the winter's cold;
Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke;
Elm-wood burns like churchyard mold,
E'en the very flames are cold.
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread -
So it is in Ireland said;
Applewood will scent the room,
Pear-wood smells like flowers in bloom,
But Ashwood wet and Ashwood dry
A King may warm his slippers by.
(-- p. 54) |
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East Side Story
Hardcover
By Louis Auchincloss
| Quote: | And now something new and ominous was beginning to simmer in her mind and heart. If Sam was turning himself into a different man from the one she had married, from the one she had loved and who had sired her children, if he had chosen, at the behest of an invented deity, to become the bland and fatuous factotum of a grinning parvenue whose greasy palm was outstretched for the family capital, was it not the remedy of his cheated spouse to play every card in her hand to reverse a losing game?
He had repeatedly and publicly given the Society full credit for his victory over alcohol; it was evident that in his mind he closely associated the two. It could not but occur to her that any lapse in his abstemousness might be accompanied by a corresponding lapse in his fidelity to the God of Dr. Forman. If the Society failed him in his battle with the bottle, might it not fail him in other things? And might it not be better for her to be married to a sot than to a bigoted fanatic? Plus the fact that she might be saving her children's inheritance? For Forman would not be content with half a million. The pocket that produced it would be deep enough for other grabs. She had to act. (From Alida at pgs. 122-123) |
Bland and fatuous factoti, be warned!
Refresh your Latin at the Classical Teacher Summer, 2004 newsletter.
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Vogue
Eating Las Vegas
Sin City's most seductive pleasures,
discovers Jeffrey Steingarten, are
those that tempt the palate.
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September, 2006
| Quote: | Did you know that of the 20 largest hotels in the world, 17 are in Las Vegas? When the first Spanish explorers came upon the area we now know as Las Vegas, they named it the Meadows, which is what Las Vegas means in their language. What were they thinking? Having spent two very happy weeks in Las Vegas last June, I can certify that there was not a meadow in sight. The city is surrounded by desert, plus a dramatic geological formation known as Red Rock. Every day the temperature reached or exceeded 100 degrees, which sharply curtailed my customary daily routine of outdoor sports. But no matter. I came to Las Vegas for the food, and the food is always air-conditioned.
Why do others make the trip? According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, 61 per cent of visitors in 2005 said their primary purpose was vacation or pleasure. Only 5 per cent came to gamble. The problem with these numbers is that you can't trust gamblers; they lie even to themselves. Listen to this: The average visitor to Las Vegas budgets more than $600 for gambling and spends more than three hours a day at the slots and gaming tables! Ten years ago you probably read that Vegas was shifting its target, aiming to attract vacationing families, but the numbers say otherwise. Only 9 per cent of visitors have somebody under 21 in their group. That's not what I call family values. And I have never before seen a more lovely collection of young proactive professional companions this side of Bangkok. (First two paragraphs, at p. 688) |
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The Pastures of Heaven
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By Nobel laureate John Steinbeck
| Quote: | Shark Wicks received a telegram. "Aunt Nellie passed away last night. Funeral Saturday." He got into his Ford and drove to the farm of John Whiteside to say he couldn't attend the school board meeting. John Whiteside was clerk of the board. Before he left, Shark looked worried for a moment and then said, "I been wanting to ask you what you thought about that San Jose Building and Loan Company."
John Whiteside smiled. "I don't know much about that particular company," he said.
"Well, I've got thirty thousand lying in the bank drawing three per cent. I though I could turn a little more interest than that if I looked around."
John Whiteside pursed his lips and blew softly and tapped the stream of air with his forefinger. "Offhand, I'd say Building and Loan was your best bet."
"Oh, that ain't my way of doing business. I don't want bets," Shark cut in. "If I can't see a sure profit in a thing, I won't go into it. Too many people bet."
"That was only a manner of speaking, Mr. Wicks. Few Building and Loan Companies go under. And they pay good interest."
"I'll look into it anyway," Shark decided. "I'm going up to Oakland for Aunt Nellie's funeral, and I'll just stop off a few hours in San Jose and look into this company." (Chapter III at pg. 30) |
| Quote: | More about The Farm in fertile Salinas Valley, a long way away from the kinder, gentler pasture of heaven of Steinbeck's childhood before the dirty '30s marked the end of innocence.
More Steinbeck gambles in the Wild West and at Poolrooms. |
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Gobe and Mail
Still another dull corporate Toronto daily
China's market myths
The story of its rise is epic in
proportion, but take a peek behind
the curtain: Rumor and speculation
still drive the country's investors
By Geoffrey York, Sinclair Stewart
and Boyd Erman
March 3/07
| Quote: | A few hundred small-time traders in ski jackets and baseball caps are crowded into a shabby hall in central Beijing, puffing on cigarettes and noisily kibitzing. The stock tickers and computer screens are modern, but the air is smoky, the paint is peeling, and the walls are lined with red Communist propaganda banners. In the corner, men are playing cards and Chinese chess, while a stream of housewives and elderly pensioners, some dressed in Mao suits, casually wander in from the street. They look innocent enough - certainly, it's difficult to believe this group helped to incite a global market panic this week, one that erased hundreds of billions of dollars worth of value from the world's stock exchange in a single day.
"It's even worse than a casino," complained Li Dqing, one of the investors at this tradfing hall, who has been investing in the Chinese market since 1996. "At least a casino has some rules. The Chinese stock market has no rules. I hate this market. It's controlled by the government. It can't be a fair game if the referee is also one of the players."
...To be fair, there are some investors who are mindful of the Asian financial crisis of 1998, and worry that sudden weakness in the Chinese market could prefigure a similar outcome. But that fear is misplaced given how small a role the Chinese stock market plays in the country, said economist Carl Weinberg of High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y. Of the 1.3 billion people in China, an overwhelming majority of those live on farms and rural areas and don't own shares.
"It's an enclave of people living in Shanghai and other cities who are affected by this, but that's not the real China," he said. "There is more free-floating anxiety than factual knowledge." It's also important to remember that the Chinese market remains dominated by lumbering state-owned companies - not the private sector enterprises that are the real engine of economic growth, or many of the global companies that dominate exports. ..."The market prices aren't set by any transparent process," he said. "The prices of the stocks are unrelated ot their value. Nobody really knows who owns the stocks. This is basically the same old casino that it always was."
Mr. Li recalls that only two or three years ago, economists were warning Chinese investors to stay away from the stock market because it resembled a casino. Today, nobody seems to listen. "Now look at these old men and women, struggling to pour into the market," he said, nodding at the people around him in the cramped trading hall. "Did they forget all those warnings? The stock market is like a lion that eats meat, and I believe that most of the newcomers and old people will " (Excerpt from p. B4) |
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The Irish Times
English-language Daily Not Yet Destroyed by
Conrad Black or His Colleagues in Media Ownership
Where a big flop can make you rich
In the world of online poker, men become women
and women become men. But in Dublin today,
they'll play face to face, writes Conor Pope.
Oct. 28/06
| Quote: | Luck doesn't usually get you far at the poker table. Every once in a while, however, if the gods of chance are smiling broadly enough you might have a stroke of ridiculous good fortune at exactly the right card game allowing you to hit the jackpot.
For most people, that moment, if it ever comes, will come at a low-level card game with friends and might bring in enough cash to cover a meal in a restaurant or a few rounds in the pub. For journalist, novelist, TV presenter, poker star and all-round renaissance women, Victoria Coren, it came at the appositely named Victoria Casino in London four weeks ago and won her 500,000 pounds (745,392 euros).
She was taking part in the London leg of the European Poker Tour (EPT) at the invitation of the tour sponsors, online poker site www.pokerstars.com, when she hit paydirt, making history by becoming the first woman to win the event.
...The 5, 3, 4, on the table gave Coren a most unlikely straight - an unbeatable hand in the circumstances, known as "the nuts." Blissfully unaware of the terrible misfortune that was about to befall him, the cocky last man standing read her tentative betting, sensed she was vulnerable and tried to bully her out of the game by going all in - betting his entire stake. She called, he lost everything and she walked away with the top prize. "I had already thought it through and I knew he was very aggressive so I had to try and let him hang himself. I thought it might take hours but as it happened, four hands in and I flopped the nuts."
...The number of players playing poker in recent years has ballooned because of the success of online poker. Women in particular have taken to it and now make up more than a quarter of all online players - compared to around 5 per cent on the live poker circuit.
Women in society are not conditioned to be aggressive but this engendered passivity "doesn't work at the poker table," says Coren. "Online poker is great for women who like the thrill of gambling. After a day of being bullied by aggressive men, they can go home, mix a martini and, behind the safety of the poker screen let out all their pent-up fury" - often after adopting a male persona.
In the same way that an attractive blonde woman in Texas you meet in an online dating forum is actually a 45-year-old bearded trucker from Athlone, there is an inordinate amount of gender swapping in the world of online poker. Men pretend to be women so people will think that they can't bluff and women pretend to be men so people will think they can. (Weekend Review, p. 3) |
| Quote: | On the river: learn the lingo
Poket cards
Every player is dealt their first two cards face down and they remain hidden for the duration of the game.
All-in
When you bet everything you have on a single hand.
The Turn or 4th Street
The fourth community card.
The River
The fifth and final community card.
A bad beat
Losing a hand when you looked certain to win. You're dealt pocket aces against someone holding a pair of 2s. They win after drawing another 2 on the River.
Tilt
Players who've experienced a bad beat may go on tilt and allow anger and frustration to have a negative impact on their poker game.
The Nuts
The best possible hand in any given deal. If you draw the nuts then going all in is a pretty good idea. [
(Weekend Review, p. 3) |
More on the gals unabashedly flashing their nuts at Celebrated Women Gamblers.
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A Highest Calling
By Patrick Cooke
March, 2007
| Quote: | Hugh Hildesley began his career at Sotheby's (nyse: BID - news - people ) in London more than 40 years ago, eventually rising to head of the Old Masters Paintings department. In 1983 he took an unusual professional sidetrack, becoming an Episcopal rector at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue in New York. Twelve years later he returned the few blocks east to Sotheby's, where today he is an executive vice president, senior auctioneer and author of The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling at Auction (W.W. Norton), regarded as the, ahem, bible of the industry. He spoke with ForbesLife executive editor Patrick Cooke.
...What's the biggest mistake rookie buyers make?
They jump in too soon. They declare their interest early, and the competition beats up on them. If it's a really good piece of art and several people are bidding, you should just stay back, because the little guys will fight it out at the lower levels. It'll finally get down to two people, and just when the person who is most hesitant is about to fold because it's getting too hot and the bidder who thinks they've got it is starting to relax, in you go. It knocks the lower bidder out and it puts the presumed winner off his balance, thinking you didn't even bother until it was almost over and you must have endless resources.
That must require pretty delicate timing.
Yes, you wouldn't do this on your first auction. But people mainly jump in too soon because they're terrified the auctioneer won't see them. If it's a major work of art, they shouldn't worry; a good auctioneer can smell a bid in the room.
(-- p. 124) |
The Complete Guide to Buying and
Selling at Auction
Hardcover
By C. Hugh Hildesley
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