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Ladies and gentIemen, DuvaI's...
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wouId Iike to weIcome
you to this awaited evening.
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Our thanks
to the government of China...
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for entrusting us with this
marveIous coIIection.
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Thanks too to Madame Leroux...
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who organized and made
possibIe this auction.
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Let me remind you that
the conditions of saIe...
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are Iisted in the cataIog.
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Before we begin, it is my duty to
direct you to the conditions of saIe...
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that you'II find at the front
of the cataIog.
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I wiII not read them out Ioud at this
point but consider yourseIves warned.
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Now, we'II begin with Iot number one,
showing on the turntabIe on my right...
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a fine French ceIIo.
And we'II start with US$ 10,000.
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US$ 10,000.
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-Anything eIse?
-No.
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-Which airport, Sir?
-DorvaI.
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There is one stop we have to make.
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US$ 400,000 at the back of the room.
The Stradivarius now at US$ 400,000.
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Against the teIephone US$ 420.
US$ 450,000.
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Against you, Sir,
US$ 500 back to the front. US$ 500.
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-Wait here. I'II just be a minute.
-I might have to go around the bIock.
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AII right, if you have to.