Featuring 41 auction lots from three public automobile sales held in France in 1898, 1922, and 1930. It documents items including automobiles, trucks, and automotive equipment, with data collected from official auction records at the Paris Archives.
Use Cases
- Analyze sale price trends for automobiles and automotive equipment across the 1898, 1922, and 1930 auctions.
- Study the identities of buyers and sellers to understand the early market participants in French automobile auctions.
- Categorize the textual description of items to inventory the types of vehicles and parts sold in early public sales.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from official archival auction records (procès-verbaux) for authenticity.
- Includes one of the earliest documented public automobile auctions in France from December 1898.
- Covers three distinct time points over a 32-year period, providing historical context.
Limitations
- Small sample size of only 41 auction lots limits statistical power for analysis.
- Temporal coverage is sparse, with only three sales years represented over the 1898–1930 period.
- Sale price data is only recorded 'when available', indicating potential missing values.
Provenance
- Source
- Official auction records (procès-verbaux) consulted at the Paris Archives.
- Collection Method
- Collected from archival documents; sales identified through a systematic review of La Gazette Drouot from 1891.
- Time Range
- 1898–1930
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- France