The Christie's price lists are printed in later, post-sale catalogs. South
Kensington results have been handled this way for some time. We photocopy
the sales results as they arrive and tip them in the appropriate catalog.
As for Sotheby's, we received a postcard a short while back stating that to
continue receiving auction results in the mail we had to return the card.
Otherwise, the mailings would cease.
Steven Eichner
Steven A. Eichner phone: (757) 664-6294
Library Manager fax: (757) 664-6201
Jean Outland Chrysler Library e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Chrysler Museum of Art url: www.chrysler.org
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510-1587
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Ross [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 3:08 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Christie's price list policy change
>
> Colleagues,
> I wondered if anyone has dealt with (or thought about) a recent Christie's
> auction catalog development that we are trying to decide how to handle?
>
> Auction catalog subscribers have always been mailed the price list (in a
> smallish, neatly printed, usually single-leaf format) for lots sold at a
> given auction several weeks after the auction has taken place. The usual
> procedure for subscribing libraries has been to tip the price list into
> the
> corresponding catalog and then shelve it in its permanent location.
> However, Christie's appears to have stopped mailing price lists and is now
> asking subscribers to print the desired lists directly from its website,
> where they have been made available, perhaps only temporarily. The
> problem
> with this is that the price lists print out into an awkward, multi-page, 8
> ½
> x 11 format. One either has to trim them and then tip in three to five
> leaves (per price list) or, possibly, make a pocket for each auction
> catalog
> to hold the folded price list pages.
>
> Either method seems time-consuming and expensive. Is there any simple
> solution we're missing that will make the price data easily available to
> readers?
>
> (Apologies if I missed a prior discussion of this issue.)
>
> Thanks in advance for any good advice,
> Alex
>
>
>
>
>
> Alex Ross
> Head Librarian
> Art & Architecture Library
> 102 Cummings Art Building
> Stanford University
> Stanford, CA 94305-2018
>
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