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Jules S. Bache, founder of Bache & Co.. The firm traces its roots back to 1879 with the founding of Leopold Cahn & Co., a brokerage and investment bank. [1] In 1892, Jules S. Bache, an employee and nephew of Leopold Cahn, reorganized Leopold Cahn & Co. as J.S. Bache & Co. Jules Bache was the grandson of an officer who fought under Napoleon and collected art treasures for The Louvre.
Phillips, formerly known as Phillips the Auctioneers and briefly as Phillips de Pury, is a British auction house. It was founded in London in 1796, and has head offices in London and in New York City. [4] In 2022 it was owned by the Mercury Group, a Russian luxury goods company. [5]
Auction houses based in New York City (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "American auction houses" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift. By 1964, the company was the largest auction house in America, [1] with 115 employees and total sales of $11 million ($108 million in 2023). That year, Sotheby's purchased a ...
Bonhams and Butterfield was a large American auction house, founded in 1865 by William Butterfield in San Francisco. It was purchased in 1999 from Bernard Osher by online auctioneer eBay for $260 million. [1] In 2002, it was acquired from eBay by British auctioneer Bonhams and operated under the name Bonhams & Butterfields for about ten years ...
George Ayres Leavitt (May 13, 1822 – December 18, 1888) was the son of a Massachusetts bookbinder who founded several of New York's earliest publishing firms. George Leavitt subsequently founded his own publishing company, Leavitt & Allen, but it failed during a financial panic that swept the nation during the American Civil War .
It’s an iconic tagline that Brooke Shields memorably delivered in her 1980 Calvin Klein campaign — one that went on to become one of the most famous, and controversial, fashion advertisements ...
Freeman's-Hindman (formerly known as Freeman's and Samuel T. Freeman & Co) is an American auction house founded in 1805 by Tristram B. Freeman, a British print seller, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The house operated under Freeman family ownership until 2016 when it was sold to a private partnership.