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Sotheby’s first half sales up by 7%
- 23 August 1999
FIRST half results for Sotheby’s parent company, Sotheby’s Holdings Inc, show a decline on last year although auction sales results have enjoyed a healthy increase.

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Gentleman’s ornamental screw mandrel lathe
Objects in Focus - 23 August 1999

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Sotheby’s issue writ over chairs
- 23 August 1999
UK: FOLLOWING the sudden departure of two senior men, Graham Child and Joseph Friedman, from Sotheby’s furniture department in London, the auction house has appointed Simon Redburn as worldwide senior specialist of its English furniture department.
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Ark to be coveted
Objects in Focus - 23 August 1999
UK: TOP price of Christie’s South Kensington (15/10 per cent buyer’s premium) sale of toys and dolls on July 29, 1999 was the £1200 which secured this painted wood Noah’s Ark, complete with numerous carved and painted wood animals, which had been estimated at £600-800.
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Titanic badge surfaces at £11,000
Objects in Focus - 23 August 1999
UK: LURKING in the depths of a maritime sale at Henry Aldridge & Son (10 per cent buyer’s premium) in Devizes, Wiltshire, on July 21, was this badge, the most expensive Edwardian badge ever sold at auction.
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Edinburgh boss and four experts quit Phillips
- 22 August 1999
UK: Rival venture rumoured
Five senior staff at Phillips Edinburgh, including the manager Nick Curnow, have resigned and left the company to pursue new interests.
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Tiffany expert convicted of trafficking stolen windows
- 16 August 1999
US: TIFFANY stained glass authority Alistair Duncan was convicted on Thursday by a New York federal jury on all five counts of trafficking in Tiffany windows stolen from cemetaries and mausoleums.
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First art auction held live online
Technology - 16 August 1999
GERMANY: ARTLINK have conducted what is being claimed as the first live online art auction. The sale – of International Young Baltic Art – took place on the evening of Saturday, August 7 at Rostock in Germany.

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Pair of English 17th century brass candlesticks
Objects in Focus - 16 August 1999
UK: PHILLIPS Cardiff are among the three rooms which will soon close, but they held a good sale on August 4 where this pair of English 17th century brass candlesticks, 61/2in (17cm) high were consigned to the rooms from a private source.
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Imagine – only £3600 for this!
Objects in Focus - 16 August 1999
UK: POP star John Lennon adopted a number of different guises throughout his career in the public eye – likely lad, mystic, cartoonist, photographer, songwriter – and likewise it now appears as though he was just as much of a chameleon in his sartorial life.
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