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Current Events & Trends | April 15, 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Rejected at Auction

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Check out this interesting little read from Daniel Grant of the Huffington Post about how and what auction houses reject. Interviews with Nick Lowry of Swann Galleries, auctioneer Leslie Hindman, and others. 

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