Merchant of Siberia (5) Very little bartering goes on in a Siberian Market. It is more popular to buy and sell. The shrewd appearing woman above is selling, for a high price, material she bought from the store some weeks before. The department store is now out of it, Pays a premium to buy it back. The dark-clad girl is not to be fooled though, she inspects it closely. July 10, 1937. (Photo by H.P. Suolka, The Associated Press).