So they have been quick to coax potential Chinese buyers to travel to their traditional sales rooms.

Now the work of younger artists is finding its way to sales rooms after being shown in galleries for only a short time.

He went into the sales room and got the key from the cashier.

He entered the bidding for the calculator at $39,780 and had one competitor, an unidentified man in the sales room.

Most of the action last night took place on the telephone rather than in the sales room.

It maintained offices and sales rooms on the first floor.

It would have been too valuable to hide here in his main sales room.

You can buy direct from the sales room on Friday afternoons only.

While one robber watched the guards, the other spent 20 minutes in the sales room, investigators said.

For much of yesterday the crowd in the sales room was buzzing about who had bought the ring.