Bidding is so much easier now at Sotheby's (...) all you have to do is raise a numbered paddle
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1990
Poster with an illustration from the magazine Punch from 1933 showing nine ways to place a bid during an auction. These have been replaced by Sotheby's with a numbered paddle.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as RP-P-2015-26-2066; its record gives material recorded as paper; measurements height 700 mm x width 500 mm. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- paper
- Measurements
- height 700 mm x width 500 mm
- Dimensions museum
- height 700 mm x width 500 mm
Identification
- Original title
- Bidding is so much easier now at Sotheby's (...) all you have to do is raise a numbered paddle
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- RP-P-2015-26-2066
- Museum classification
- print · poster
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: this record describes a single museum object; confirm the wider type, attribution, dimensions, marks and catalogue references against poster and printing-history references.