Patrick Barrett.jpg) Graduated from the World Wide College of Auctioneering in 1979. Extensive experience as ringman (35 years), clerk (33 years), cashier (33 years), Licensed Wisconsin Auctioneer #354 Director of Uhaul operations and on-site sales. Numismatist, Pottery and decorator ceramics, American Cranberry Glass and NASCAR enthusiast. We are so proud to congratulate Patrick Barrett as the 32nd inductee into the American Cribbage Congress HALL OF FAME He was officially installed in Sept at the Grand National Tournament Banquet in Appleton WI Sept 22 2012. He has acheived the level of Life Master One Star, currently ranked 71st out of 6000+ members. Also, Patrick competed against 812 players in the world's largest cribbage tournament on Sat/Sun the 11th and 12th of Feb. 2012 at the JPW Open in Reno NV and finished in the 3rd/4th position. Way to go Patrick!
Patrick's 30+ years of auctioneering experience adds to the extensive portfolio Barrett's offers to sellers. Not only conducting weekly sales, but offering advisory help to several other auction houses when they started Patrick has been a familiar part of auctions in Wisconsin. Past experience includes work for The Royal Event at Assumption High School in Wisconsin Rapids, several court-appointed appraisals, yeoman auction duties for Barrett's as well as The Auction House of West Salem, Wild Rose Auctions, and many others.
Patrick has seen how things work on the inside of an elite motorsports organization as a former Starter and Race Director for NASCAR. He currently works as the Starter for Golden Sands Speedway, WIR in Kaukauna, and as the former starter for the newly-refurbished Marshfield Super Speedway and Dells Motor Speedway and Raceway Park.
For the past decade Patrick has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Cribbage Congress. He is one of their highest rated players, having achieved a level of Life Master One Star, so far achieved by only 70 others, he is currently ranked 68th and rising. He chalked up his 6th and 7th Main Tournament wins by besting 986 players in the largest tournament in the world, the Joseph Petrus Wergin Open at the Sands Regency in Reno, NV along with the Waupaca Rotary Open in Waupaca WI. He is the Central Region Tournament Commissioner. Patrick is now one of the elite players and directors elected into the American Cribbage Congress Hall of Fame, a peer-elected position of high honor bestowed on very few.
Patrick and his wife Linda travel when they can, and are known widely in the ACC as crack tournament directors, running a yearly event at the Mead Inn in Wisconsin Rapids, 2 Grand National Tournaments, and pitching in at several other ACC events year-long.
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