The two-day auction netted $10.5 million for the Cincinnati Museum Center - more than twice the pre-sale estimate of $4.5 million.
On June 7, the center announced it was putting the 900-book Cornelius J. Hauck collection on the auction block because it didn’t fit into the center’s local and regional focus.
The wealthy Hauck was heir to […]
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It will cost more than half a million dollars for a successful bidder to dine with Warren Buffett, with bidding for that privilege in an online charity auction on eBay Inc. now reaching a record $500,100.
Buffett, the 75-year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Charts), will dine with up to eight people, as he has since […]
Shares of Univision Communications Inc. (UVN.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the No. 1 Spanish language broadcaster in the United States that put itself up for sale earlier this year, fell nearly 3 percent on Monday amid doubts surrounding the company’s messy auction.
One bidding group unraveled last week, with three large private equity bidders dropping out and […]
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management hosted an adoption auction this past weekend at Flickerwood Arena in Jackson, about 100 miles south of St. Louis. But of 70 horses and 11 burros available, only 16 animals were adopted.
At a similar event two years ago, nearly all of the horses and burros were […]
A rare and valuable book collection, which includes one volume estimated at between $600,000 and $800,000 (USD), will be auctioned at Christie’s (June 27) and Wednesday.
The auction, called “The History of the Book,” comprises the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck who was the heir to a Cincinnati beer brewery fortune. The collection had been […]
