Auction sale. The town crier blowing his trumpet and the auctioneer, the public official in charge of the sale. Another sale in the background, at the sound of the bell. Engraving after a woodcut in "Praxis Rerum Civilium", by Joost de Damhouder (1507-1581). Published Antwerp, 1557. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a lepoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.