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Not a flying saucer… but not far off
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Objects in Focus - 31 August 2010 |
IT looks like a flying saucer, and to those viewing it on the monastery wall in Verona where it had hung since the Middle Ages, it can have had hardly less of an impact.
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Antique Rhino Horn: The Rules
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- 23 August 2010 |
MOST antiques that include the “parts and derivatives” of endangered species enjoy an exemption from CITES controls known as the “worked item” derogation.
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Lowry faker handed £1.2m compensation bill
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- 23 August 2010 |
IN a confiscation hearing earlier this month, Maurice Taylor, the man jailed last March for three years for selling a fake Lowry painting, was warned that he faced a further ten years in prison unless he paid back almost £1.2m deemed to be the proceeds of fraud.
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Scottish Puritan scoops £27,000
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Auction Reports - 23 August 2010 |
PURITAN spoons are not uncommon survivors in English silver but, for reasons still largely unknown, Scottish examples are very rare. To date, only nine hallmarked or provincial examples are known.
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An object lesson in embellishment
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Objects in Focus - 23 August 2010 |
THE Viennese mahogany commode, pictured here at the top, has undergone a remarkable transformation since it sold along with its companion pair at auction in 1993 as part of the Thurn and Taxis sale.
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