The Gavel Report
Every week we pick a few auctions worth your time and look at why their best listings worked, from the photos to the write-ups to what the lots sold for.
Written for people who call auctions and write catalogs. The email is how an issue arrives. The archive below is where it stays.
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What an issue contains
01
The sale
Which house, which day, and what kind of auction. Enough to know whether the sale is in your lane.
02
The lot
One object worth a closer look, in the words the catalog actually used. A price appears only when it is a real result from that sale.
03
How it was photographed
The frame of the whole object, the frame of the mark, the frame of the damage, and whether anything in the shot gives scale.
04
How it was described
Where the title puts its weight, how specific the condition is, and whether each claim has a photo behind it.
Issue archive
Every issue is published here, on meetauctus.com. The mailing list sends the letter. It does not host the archive.
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