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Affordable Antiques: Tips on how to bid at auction |
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One technique for taking some air out of the auctioneer’s sail is to slice the bid increments in half (politely state your bid in $50 or $25 jumps).
With the leftover dough, you can splurge on a striking cocktail cabinet made of figured walnut in the Thirties. A rarity in living rooms today, cocktail cabinets were once America’s answer to Europe’s curiosity cabinets. And if staycations remain popular, cocktail cabinets will too. This antique walnut mini bar opens to reveal bird’s-eye-maple-lined shelves. At almost six-feet tall, the cabinet didn’t create a stir at Christie’s where it went for a bargain $1,948, not clearing its low estimate ($3,258).
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