What business there was, they said, consisted largely of transactions between dealers.

So, too, was information about contacts between primary dealers concerning the auction.

"Over the years, whenever he was between dealers he would sell me things."

Many of the items displayed at this year's show represent close collaboration between commercial dealers and scientists.

When there is real friendship between artists and dealers, they are likely to enter quietly and take a place in a corner of their own.

There is some tension between large and smaller, independent dealers.

Whether or not there was collusion between issuers and dealers, Federal regulators are pressing forward with several cases.

The tone for an adversary relationship between company and dealers has been set, I think, by shoddy treatment of the dealer body.

"Antagonism between dealers and auction houses may have existed in the 80's, but it's a situation we are moving away from," he said.

He had been responsible for negotiating between dealers in the North and the rest of England.