The Auction System 179 



Increasingly after 181 6 auction sales of imported goods were 

 done for foreign account. British manufacturers and exporters 

 consigned their goods directly to auctioneers or more commonly 

 to agents sent to our ports. These "foreign agents of manu- 

 facturing and mercantile establishments of Europe" were "most 

 of them — single men, and aliens, — in the habit of living at board- 

 ing houses, neither hiring houses, stores, or employing clerks."^^ 



(000) 



Haggerty & Austen $72 



J. Hone & Sons 61 



T. Pearsall 45 



R. Lawrence 31 



A. G. Thompson 16 



W. Timpson 12 



Mills & Minton ■ 10 

 M. Hoffman 

 A. S. Glass 



Total 262. 



Thirty seven others paid a total amount of $37,000. Goodrich, Picture, 

 453- 



In 1835 the ranking sales were as follows : 



It is noteworthy that certain auctioneers specialized in non-dutiable goods, 

 notably James Bleecker and J. M. Muller; such specialization would affect 

 their relative importance when ranked on the basis of duties paid. Data 

 from Williams Annual Register, 1836; 197. 



Further similar statistical data for New York for the years 1840-8 are 

 given in New York Assembly Document 218 (1849) Vol. 5, p. 4; for 

 Philadelphia data see Niles, 25: 80; 67: 342; 69: 336, and for Baltimore 

 see Niles, 67: 324. 



" N. Y. Assembly Journal, 1829 : 391. 



