Buckland Auction House

From Charmed

Buckland Auction House is an auction house that Prue worked for a year and half.

Prue first got her job from the founder and boss "Rex Buckland" (I've Got You Under My Skin). Almost a month and half working at Buckland's, Prue found out Rex and Hannah Webster (her co-boss and Rex's lover) were warlocks working for the Source. They first tried to eliminate the Charmed Ones by tricking Prue into freeing Matthew Tate, a warlock cursed into a locket by her ancestor, Melinda Warren. However, the Charmed Ones, with Melinda's help, were able to curse Matthew back into the locket.

Rex and Hannah then hatched a new plan--framing Prue for stealing a tiara, and then blackmailing them into giving up their powers in return for clearing Prue's name. However, Prue, with the help of Piper and Phoebe, was able to to trick Hannah into killing Rex. Prue, Piper and Phoebe were going vanquish Hannah, but the Source vanquished Hannah instead (Wicca Envy).

Rex and Hannah skimmed millions of dollars in auction proceeds while they ran Buckland's. Their deaths revealed Buckland's was on the verge of collapse, so a bank took over and installed a tough new boss, Claire. In the episode That Old Black Magic, Jack Sheridan joins Buckland's, Prue was very annoyed about the fact he was there but later on liked him and started to date him. In the epsiode P3 H2O Prue says to Jack "I have worked at Bucklands for a year and half now and in that time I have survived takeovers, near bankruptcy and superiors from hell that have tried to kill me."

Four episodes later (Awakened) Prue quits her job at Buckland's because Jack tried to sell a painting that he knew wasn't an orignal and because she came to realize that life was something worth exploring, as soon as she quit so did her relationship with Jack. She then pursued a career in photography.

In Morality Bites, the auction house served as the location as to where the sisters kept the Book of Shadows, it was kept in Prue's locked wall safe; presumably protecting it from evil, intruders or witch hunters.

[edit] Staff members

• Prue Halliwell
• Jack Sheridan
• Mr. Caldwell
• Claire Pryce
• Rex Buckland
• Hannah Webster
• Tanya Parker
• Jaime

[edit] Trivia

• The name Buckland comes from Raymond Buckland, an English American writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult, and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he is a High Priest in both the Gardnerian and Seax traditions.