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Our country has come under the hammer of many countries."

A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.

As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.

In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.

A total of 38 artworks are to come under the hammer at the sale next month at Christie's in London.

In all over 600 lots came under the hammer and they were dispatched in under four hours with some brisk bidding on choice items.

"If you keep it pointed at the floor and pull the trigger twice, you'll have the cartridge in the next chamber to come under the hammer.

The serious business, however, started when the absolute right to quota came under the hammer of the auctioneer, Iain Thomson.

It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.

The Premium Sales, when most of the bluest-blooded youngsters would come under the hammer, were as usual at the end of the month.

Almost 300 lots of linen came under the hammer, including 31 tablecloths, 60 linen sheets, 90 table napkins, and over 200 towels.

It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th, at the Barnstaple Motel.

MORE than 150 lots will come under the hammer at Christie's Irish paintings sale in Dublin this week.

They would come under the hammer, now; all that had belonged to him would come under the hammer, he supposed.

There was a packed auction room at Hereford Racecourse this afternoon as 20 pubs; 8 of them in Herefordshire and Worcestershire came under the hammer.

When one came under the hammer in Morgan's - the boat belonged to a fisherman who no longer required it - it drew strong bidding and sold for £2,000.

In Morgan's a nine-piece inlaid mahogany parlour suite came under the hammer at £1,950 and an upright overstrung Steinway piano went for £850.

Anglers, amateur or otherwise, should have a field day at Morgan's next auction when no less than 30 choice rods, carrying names like Hardy and Alcock will come under the hammer.

As no one individual or institution in the Czech Republic has $10 million to spend on a painting, the collection would almost certainly be split and leave Bohemia if it ever does come under the hammer.

Dowty Electrics in Kingsditch Lane in Cheltenham is one of the companies to come under the hammer, the other, Dowty Weapons Systems at Churchdown near Gloucester.

Something has to change however, if the demographic trend continues, and I suspect that it will be state pensions that come under the hammer - perhaps through legislation that requires considerably more contributions from the workforce, and rather less from the Treasury.

A Victorian carved oak court cabinet made £850; a set of 12 Victorian style balloon back came under the hammer at £800; a mahogany cased grandfather clock made £500 and a Georgian inlaid walnut five drawer chest, £425.

In a KLM Airbus circling over Switzerland and Germany at 41,000 feet bidders enjoyed caviar and champagne with 40 modern Russian paintings and 40 designs by Dutch jewellers and silversmiths came under the hammer.

Reported to include a pair of airworthy Skyraiders, along with a collection of 26 restorable aircraft, plus a large aero engine collection, spares holdings, automobiles, tools and equipment, this must be one of the largest 'one man' collections to come under the hammer in recent years.

The rest are to go under the hammer in the fall.

We take a look at what else went under the hammer.

I sat there for almost two hours while one lot after another went under the hammer.

The rest of his collection is going under the hammer.

His art collection went under the hammer on 6 May 2009.

That would make it the most expensive car ever to go under the hammer.

In all, over 1,200 pieces were due to go under the hammer.

French museums were aware of the quality going under the hammer, too.

Love does not go under the hammer, ever.

Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.

Some of the most memorable gowns worn by the late Princess are to go under the hammer.

All were shortly to go under the hammer.

Note that these rare motor cars are not just being offered for sale or merely going under the hammer.

So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.

All of it was going under the hammer, to be recast and reforged into engine parts.

My family home, Chelmswood, is about to go under the hammer."

My house is filled with bric-a-brac, but the good stuff goes under the hammer, I'm afraid."

On Saturday, all shapes and sizes of water craft go under the hammer; the common theme; they're all from another age.

See Crick's medal goes under the hammer, Nature, 5 April 2013.

A record of the frantic calculations at the heart of a life-or-death space drama is to go under the hammer.

Of those with full state ownership certain to go under the hammer, perhaps only construction company Mosmetrostroy will be able to provoke any great interest.

"I went under the Hammer, and saw-and saw great wonders of stone, and yet am here.

The British Heart Foundation is seeking items, particularly art work, to go under the hammer at a charity auction.

A cellarfull of blue-ribbon bottles will go under the hammer in New York this week.

According to Christie's, the jewellery alone is expected to fetch between $35m and $40m when it goes under the hammer.