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1953-12 (December) Auctioneer IssueEntry/Object ID
2024.2.279Description
The official publication of the National Auction Association. For decades, The Auctioneer has provided NAA auction professionals with insightful content to help them advance their careers, grow their business, stay connected to the industry and remain competitive in an ever-changing auction marketplace. Articles in The Auctioneer include legal advice, marketing tips, industry and state association news, member profiles and more.
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In this issue:
- (On the cover) "Merry Christmas Happy New Year" with illustration of Santa Claus
- The Presidents page (Walter Holford)
- The Editor Speaks
- "THEN and NOW" Extracts from a book written and copyrighted 1912
- Ethics Is The Key
- Yuletide Spirit
- Life Begins at Eighty
- 1954 Promising if we produce
- What's happening in the N.A.A.
- Records - Results 1953 - 1954
- We are Growing
- Stepping Forward
- Keep this list of new members growing
- Count our many blessings
- Recognition Only Through Organization
- $60,000 raised by charity ball in New Jersey
- Faith, Hope, Tolerance
- Never say no
- What the Nebraska boys are doing
- San Francisco's Famous Cow Palace
- Straight Ahead
- Tolerance Pays Dividends
- Membership Campaign Will Pay Off
- The Realty Auction Field
- Along the way
- "Good Will to Men
- Service
- Knowledge and Confidence
- Integrity
- Merry Xmas
- Illinois State Auctioneers Association (photo)
- Illinois State Meeting Draws Large Crowd
- Glenn and Virginia Archer sold their way to
- Statement of 1953 National Convention
- Parke-Bernet Galleries List Items for Auctions
- The Ladies Auxiliary, The Spirit of Christmas
- All-time Auction Records
- Auctioneer I. F. Rochelle Hospitalized
- The time of your life (antique clocks)
- Clippings
- $2,000,000 Gamble: Thoroughbreds don't race on their pedigrees, conformation on prices tags
- 1953 going-going-gone on 12 midnight Dec. 31
- Dead Parcel Post brings lively bids
- In Memoriam: Russell Burkhardt / J. Albert Ferguson / Roy Hiatt / Bert O. Vogeler / N.W. Peterson / Vorris Craig / Bob Kirkbride / F. G. Morse / Worthy C. Tate / R. C. Haines / Williams B Wenzel / Ray Garvey / L. A. Nelson / J. H. Ransier / Fred Watson / Joe N. DelCamp / Howard Roberts
- Christmas in the Air
- All-time Sales Averages
- Forty Years Ago I Remember
- Can't Keep 'em From a Police Auction
- Call for Articles About Strange Auction ExperiencesCollection
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MagazineVolume/Number/Issue
Vol. 4, No. 11Publisher
National Auction AssociationDate Published
Dec 1953Time Period
20th CenturyRelationships
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John W. Rhodes, Walter Holford, H.W. Sigrist, B.G. Coats, C.B. Drake, Don Zicht, Art W. Thompson, Foster G. Sheets, Tom Berry, William Felton, C.B Smith, Walter E. Palmer, Pop Hess, C. G. Williams, Frank Taylor, R.C. Foland, Walter Carlson, Paul F. Bockleman, Bernard Hart, J. Darbyshire, Guy Pettit, Clyde M. Wilson, Tom Sapp, Kent Sagendorph, Ann Kilborn Cole, E.T Nelson, Gordon Martin, Ralph DrakeRelated Publications
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