Template:Did you know nominations/Peregrine Pollen

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:22, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Peregrine Pollen

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• ... that auctioneer Peregrine Pollen once smuggled four impressionist paintings out of Buenos Aires in a Beatles poster? Source: "once rolled up four impressionist paintings inside a Beatles poster to smuggle them out of Buenos Aires." WSJ
  • ALT1: ... that Peregrine Pollen oversaw the expansion of Sotheby Parke-Bernet throughout North America?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Emilie Widemann Macfarlane

Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:39, 26 March 2020 (UTC).

Interesting life, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I like the first hook much better. I think I'd like one even better mentioning the talking Macaw, as an illustration of his "flair", praised by all obits. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:09, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

One more question: Who is the "she" who died? Did he marry the same woman twice? That needed to be said more clearly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

• Hi, Gerda Arendt. How does:

• ALT2 ... that auctioneer Peregrine Pollen had an alcoholic Caique and once smuggled four impressionist paintings out of Buenos Aires in a Beatles poster?--> Source: "once rolled up four impressionist paintings inside a Beatles poster to smuggle them out of Buenos Aires." WSJ, Pollen: Obituaries - Insatiably curious collector and auctioneer who took Sotheby's to New York, kept an alcoholic parrot and spent time in a Chilean prison

sound? Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 21:34, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I'd prefer the original, too much of a good thing in ALT2. What I meant was that he ran "dramatic" auctions, but I approve the original for you, and you think about if you want something else. If the bird, pipe to "parrot", please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 27 March 2020 (UTC)