If Auction houses or their employees are allowed to place bids, it seems reasonable to expect them to disclose when they have done so. At present, we are left to guess. At least by the end of the auction, and preferably beforehand, all bids placed by the house or its staff should be identified as such in the item's bidding history.
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. - Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th US President.
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