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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-size: x-large;">Some fun auction history</i><span style="font-size: large;"> :)</span></span><br />
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<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The word “<b style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">auction</b>” derives from the Latin word <b style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“auctus,” </b>which means “increasing.”</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rome was the first nation to license auctioneers.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius sold family furniture at auction to satisfy debts.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The “Magister Auctionarium” drove a spear into the ground to start the auction. Today, auctioneers use gavels many times throughout an auction.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Founded in 1674 by Baron Claes Rålamb, Stockholms Auktionsverk is the oldest auction house still in business.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Candles were used in the 1700s at auctions to declare the winner. If you were the high bidder at the time when the candle extinguished itself, you won the auction.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the mid-1700s, auctions were commonly held in taverns. Elaborate and detailed catalogs for works of art were considered art themselves.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">America’s first president, George Washington, was an avid auction buyer.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jones’ National School of Auctioneering and Oratory was the first American auction school and was established in Davenport, Iowa, in 1906. ...... The above information is from NAA </li>
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