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Sotheby’s post strong sales results
SOTHEBY’S have posted $4.9bn in worldwide sales for 2011, marginally up on 2010.
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Dealers and auctioneers take up the cudgel over Artist’s Resale Right
EVIDENCE that the trade is not taking the introduction of the beefed up Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) lightly is beginning to emerge.
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Seat of power – where Wellington stood to watch Napoleon’s defeat
AT Waterloo, Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) is supposed to have directed the battle from a position near the crossroads of the Brussels and Ohain roads.
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A Regency period elm cross-frame chair formed from a tree under which the Duke of Wellington stood during the battle of Waterloo.
Violent raid saw art expert direct gang by smart phone
DETAILS have emerged of a brutal and ruthlessly executed robbery which saw two armed men break into the home of an elderly art dealer in Northern Ireland on January 3.
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Are furniture prices levelling out after years of decline?
After massive falls in the previous two years, the Antique Collectors’ Club’s Annual Furniture Index (AFI) dropped by a modest two per cent in 2011.
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Limehouse at its absolute best
THE small factory at Limehouse, operating on the banks of the Thames just to the east of the Tower of London from 1745-1748, was one of the pioneers of English porcelain manufacture.
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One of a pair of Limehouse sauceboats sold for £34,000 at Fieldings on January 14.
It’s a right Royal Mint rip-off, says top dealer
THE Royal Mint stands accused of ripping off the public through sales of coins as collectables. Even the latest Olympic issue is affected, it is claimed.
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£250,000 Hepworth marks the beginning of a new era
THIS alabaster sculpture by Barbara Hepworth (1903-75), entitled Two Rotating Forms II and dated to 1966, began the new year in style for Sworders when it sold for £250,000 on January 10.
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<em>Two Rotating Forms II</em>, 1966 by Barbara Hepworth which sold for £250,000 at Sworders.
Government must step in over Wedgwood crisis say family
SPEEDY government intervention is essential to save the Wedgwood Museum’s collection, descendants of Josiah Wedgwood say.
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The Louvre acquires tureens made for George III
SOTHEBY’S Paris have announced that they have negotiated a private treaty sale to the Louvre for an undisclosed sum of a pair of silver tureens, covers, liners and stands by the French goldsmith Robert-Joseph Auguste.
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The pair of tureens that will augment the Louvre’s holding of George III’s grand dinner service.
NASA row leaves market in space collectables up in air
NASA are trying to play down news of a row with Apollo astronauts over the sale of artefacts from the space programme dating back to the 1960s and ‘70s.
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The $3.25m New York satyr
THE much-anticipated 642-lot sale of the Prospero collection of classical Greek coins conducted by A.H. Baldwin & Sons of London (in association with Dmitry Markov of New York and M&M Numismatics Ltd of Washington DC) concluded after eight hours at 03.30 EST on January 5.
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The gold stater from Pantikapaion depicting the head of a 
satyr – $3.25m.
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Maiolica dish well worth the 30-year wait >>
The previously unrecorded and beautifully painted maiolica dish by Francesco Xanto Avelli that sold for £325,000 at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh.
Australian teaset brings £42,000 in Yorkshire >>
Silver teaset by Alexander Dic, Sydney c.1836, &pound;42,000 at Tennants.
A £50,000 tribute to a Renaissance wonder >>
A cast of the Renaissance-era elephant known as Suleiman the Magnificent, which took £50,000 at Duke’s.
Antiques are officially green >>
The Antiques are Green logo. All ATG readers are urged to to display the symbol wherever appropriate to raise public awareness of the impeccably green credentials of objects that have been handed down from generation to generation.