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Two new fairs for Arthur Swallow
Fairs News - 01 June 2010
ARTHUR Swallow Fairs, organisers of the giant antiques and collectors’ event at the Lincolnshire Showground, will launch two new fairs this year.
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Tadema stock book nets £25,000
Auction Reports - 01 June 2010
THE original autograph stock book of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, found in a box of girlie magazines, sold for £25,000 (plus 17% buyer's premium) at the Shropshire auctioneers Mullock's in Ludlow.
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Packaging makes all the difference in Star Wars market
Objects in Focus - 01 June 2010
MOST Star Wars aficionados are familiar with the story of the Flintshire pensioner who bought 20 Palitoy action figures for 49p each in 1978 and sold them at Stockton-on-Tees toy specialists Vectis for a small fortune in 2003.
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Four of the original 1978 Star Wars figures sold by Lacy Scott & Knight. Luke Skywalker, pictured top left, proved the most desirable figure selling at £1150. The other figures are Princess Leia (£300), Darth Vader (£320) and Hans Solo (£270).
Canterbury double fine sales
- 01 June 2010
CANTERBURY Auction Galleries are to embark on a new sales format that will double the number of fine sales held annually and offer every lot to a potential worldwide audience of Internet bidders.
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June 30 spells end for Elgar £20 note
- 01 June 2010
FROM 30 June, the £20 banknote carrying the portrait of composer Sir Edward Elgar is to be finally withdrawn from circulation.
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Portobello’s Good Fairy opens its doors again
- 01 June 2010
AFTER being closed since early March, The Good Fairy Market in Portobello Road reopened on May 8, to the surprise of some dealers at the Saturday market.
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Jades take sale to new record total for regional auction
Auction Reports - 28 May 2010
CONTRIBUTING handsomely to the largest grossing sale ever conducted by a regional auctioneer, this 7in (18cm) high Chinese Imperial white jade bell sold for £2m hammer at Woolley & Wallis of Salisbury on May 19 – the first day of a two-catalogue Asian art sale.
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The Chinese Imperial white jade bell that sold for £2m at Woolley & Wallis of Salisbury.
Vendors of ‘Friedrich’ apply to have £300,000 sale annulled
International - 28 May 2010
WHAT is thought to be a long-lost work by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is at the centre of a legal imbroglio after being offered for auction in France with an estimate of 80-100 euros.
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This oil of an owl perched in a leafless tree sold at auction in Cannes for 350,000 euros (£300,000) on February 10. Speculation that the picture is by the German Romanticist Caspar David Friedrich has led to an attempt to annul the sale.
Failure to repair alarm costs Paris museum dear
Stolen - 28 May 2010
FIVE modern paintings, thought to be worth a total of over £90m, were stolen during the night of May 19-20 from the City of Paris Modern Art Museum.
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Salander stock to be sold by Christie’s in New York
International - 28 May 2010
A SPECIAL addition to Christie’s mid-season Old Masters and 19th century art sale in New York on June 9 is what the auctioneers describe as “an exceptional selection of European paintings and sculpture” from the former Salander-O’Reilly Galleries in Manhattan.
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Among the higher-estimated lots in the Salander sale is this <em>Imaginary Self-Portrait of Titian</em> by Pietro Della Vecchia (1602/3-1678). It is expected to fetch $100,000-150,000.
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