Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in commerce and business]

Anotations

Scope note:

People active in public distribution or sale of property as the official recorders of the transaction and prices paid. In certain cases, this person may have worked with the "commissaires-priseurs," or may have been in charge of recording as well as valuing the works for sale, adjudicating, and bringing down the hammer for the sale.