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Issue: September 15, 1995

September 15, 1995 How to Buy and Sell Wine at Auction By Peter D. Meltzer There is an apocryphal story about a neophyte at a Sotheby's fine wine sale, many years ago, who accumulated dozens of expensive classified growths before he realized he was buying by the case and not, as he had intended, by the bottle.

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