Sancy Hope diamond. The Sancy was in the collection of Vasiliy Rudanovsky until 1828 when purchased by Prince Demidoff for £80,000. It remained in the Demidov family collection until 1865 when sold to Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, an Indian prince, for £100,000. He sold it only a year later, creating another gap in its history. It reappeared in 1867, displayed at the Paris Exposition, carrying a price tag of one million francs; the gem then vanished again for forty years. The Sancy next surfaced in 1906 when bought by William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, from famous Russian collector A.K.Rudanovsky. The prominent
Auction chant Van Dyke who was an auctioneer, and the 1995 hit single "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" by John Michael Montgomery. Commercials for Lucky Strike cigarettes featured tobacco auctioneers, and their phrase ""Sold" American!" made its way into the 1940 film "His Girl Friday". The auction chant was explored in the 1976 documentary "How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck", by Werner Herzog. Auction chant Auction chant (also known as "bid calling", "the auction cry", "the cattle rattle", or simply "auctioneering") is a rhythmic repetition of numbers and "filler words" spoken by auctioneers in the process of conducting an auction.