Absentee bids let you place your maximum bid on an item before the live auction begins. During the live show, we’ll continue bidding on your behalf up to your max bid — just like leaving a bid with a traditional auctioneer.
When you place an absentee bid, you’ll choose a bid strategy. Your chosen strategy determines how the current bid will be set at the time your bid is placed. Your maximum bid always remains confidential.
The available strategies are:
🐢 Slow & Steady — starts your bid low and lets others chase you.
⚡💥 Power Bid — starts at about half your max to show intent without revealing your top number.
♥️♠️ All In ♦️♣️ — sets the current bid to your full bid amount right away.
The current bid shown on each lot reflects all confirmed absentee bids and updates automatically as new bids come in.
When the live auction starts, bidding will begin at the current bid. The auctioneer will continue bidding on behalf of absentee bidders up to their max bids.
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Bidding Quick Facts
How bidding works
All items have a minimum bid of $1.00.
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Lot 012 - Antique Painted Porcelain Tile Of Young Woman in White Head Scarf Posed Before Landscape with Clasped Hands, In Brass Frame With Crest, Note Large Crack, 4-7/8" x 9-1/8"
Lot 012 - Antique Painted Porcelain Tile Of Young Woman in White Head Scarf Posed Before Landscape with Clasped Hands, In Brass Frame With Crest, Note Large Crack, 4-7/8" x 9-1/8"
Hand-painted porcelain tile depicting a young woman in prayer, wearing a white hanging headscarf and brown coat, with gray eyes. Mounted in a brass frame with decorative crest at top and triangle hanger on reverse. Small loss to upper left side of frame ornamentation. The brass has been treated with black paint to create an aged appearance, with visible brushwork on the back. Note large crack running diagonally through the tile along the line of the woman's hanging scarf, plus multiple additional cracks emanating from a point of damage in the upper left corner.