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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Sometimes you get so sick of seeing the same thing in different auctions, you wonder if you're not having a bad case of deja vu (the metal bank with the black pitcher and catcher comes to mind--probably quite rare, too!). People buy things they think will sell at what they think is a good price, and then try to sell them quickly in a different auction. Also, auction catalogues overlap, since they have to be prepared in advance, so the auction house, when they put their catalogue together, doesn't know that the thing was very recently in another auction.

And sometimes buyers REALLY goof. Like with the Wagner "strip," purchased at quite a price in a huge auction, and then the buyer tried to sell it for twice the price in his catalogue--uhuh.