Nine different ways to bid for a Bateman

What is your bidding technique? This Bateman cartoon on offer at John Nicholson’s on May 23 should strike a chord with ATG readers who remember the days before bidding paddles.

Published in Punch in 1933, The Art of Bidding shows nine heads captioned Some do it by raising an…

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