As an intermediate solution, several sellers are considering anonymously posting prices, which would allow initial price-data collection and may stimulate further price information to be posted.
Mr. Haverland rejected those initial ideas, wary of anything that would steal too much attention from his collection of 20th-century furniture and art.
Initial content will include the history of sport incorporating the Welsh Sporting Hall of Fame Collection, and the important account of immigration and emigration in Welsh history.
BankRate, which operates a collection of financial information Web sites, expects to return to the public market with an initial offering of 20 million shares.