Auction houses [ Trade ]
… intellectuals, a certain parity of the educated’. 7 As such, auction rooms seem to have proved very beneficial to communities of specialist knowledge, such as antiquarians and book collectors. This sociability of connoisseurs who often … Thomas Burger (Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991), p. 32. The auction house provided these communities with sociable space, by also maintaining and redistributing their cultural identities from sale to sale. The …
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