Letters to the Editor


ATG letter: We need class action on ivory

23 April 2018

MADAM – Thank you for printing my previous correspondence (ATG No 2337). If I thought that a ban on pre-1947 ivory would stop the death of 50 elephants I would stop writing.

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ATG letter: Fruitful questions on whereabouts of rare Troika

23 April 2018

MADAM – My collection of Troika ceramics includes some rare pieces, notably two bowls of fruit.

ATG letter: No compensation after ivory ban comes into effect

23 April 2018

MADAM – The government’s ill-conceived attack on antique ivory will likely mean that two pieces in my home – a 19th century Cantonese puzzle-ball chess set and my wife’s Corpus Christi acquired shortly after our marriage 50 years ago – now have no value in probate.

ATG letter: Potential consequences of the ivory ban – for museums

23 April 2018

MADAM – Last year readers may recall a Victorian presentation ‘ivory tusk’ dinner gong was removed from display in one of the Royal Collection exhibitions.

ATG Letter: Collections 'are now worthless'

16 April 2018

MADAM – As a dealer (and collector) in antique needlework tools and other small collectables, I am dismayed and angered by the proposals for the ivory ban as outlined in detail in last week’s ATG.

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ATG Letter: Seven reasons the ivory ban is ‘flawed and ill-conceived’

16 April 2018

MADAM – Having read the government (Defra) statement on the UK ivory ban (ATG No 2337), it is obvious that far from offering clarity, it is flawed on the following points:

ATG Letter: Send ATG to your local MP

16 April 2018

MADAM – I would suggest sending a copy of last week’s ATG guide to the ivory ban to every MP with an appropriate covering letter.

ATG Letter: ‘Heading towards unworkable fudge’

16 April 2018

MADAM – I am alarmed at the government’s apparently poor understanding of how the trade works and its relationship with collectors and venerable institutions.

ATG Letter: 'The ivory ban is about Michael Gove playing politics, not saving elephants'

09 April 2018

MADAM – I concur with everything that Michael Baggott wrote in ATG No 2235.

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ATG Letter: Why Defra's ‘de minimis’ provision for antique ivory is ‘extraordinarily impractical’

09 April 2018

MADAM – Defra’s findings outlined in the post-consultation document include an extraordinarily impractical provision for the ‘de minimis’ exemption – requiring registration (with an as yet unspecified fee) of all objects with an ivory content below 10% created before 1947.

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ATG letter: Our sales spike during events

02 April 2018

MADAM – Re your report on dealer findings in Art Basel’s The Art Market 2018 report (ATG No 2335), I was intrigued by the ‘Average time taken to sell works from dealers’ inventories…’ graph.

ATG letter: 3B or not 3B (or possibly 4B), that is the question

02 April 2018

MADAM – I sympathise with your correspondent Phil Higginbotham (Letters, ATG No 2335), who decries booksellers’ notes on endpapers.

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ATG letter: Why I go for broken Staffordshire figurines

26 March 2018

MADAM – I am an artist and a restorer and have been working with broken Staffordshire figurines for some time now – re-inventing and giving them a new lease of life.

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ATG letter: Let’s have discussion without bias on antiques ivory issue

26 March 2018

MADAM – I was open-mouthed in disbelief to see again opinion discussed as fact when the ivory issue was aired on national television (ATG No 2334).

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ATG letter: Doctor Who script – Who are you kidding?

26 March 2018

MADAM – I did a double – no, triple – take when I read the article ‘First Doctor Who script up at auction’ in ATG No 2332.

ATG letter: Shame of early ivory purchases

26 March 2018

MADAM – I have pieces of antique elephant tusk ivory that I collected unconcerned about the (now well-known) conservation problems.

ATG lettter: Cross out the scribbles

26 March 2018

MADAM – Have sellers of antiquarian books never considered the use of ‘Post-it’ notes? Do they not realise that pencil scribbles actually devalue the product that they are trying to sell?

ATG Letter: Taking issue with Two Million Tusks' assertions

12 March 2018

MADAM – Last week (ATG No 2332) you published a response from lobby group Two Million Tusks to my suggestion that there should be a TV programme on the subject of ivory.

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ATG Letter: My copies of Antiques Trade Gazette are art in themselves...

12 March 2018

MADAM – I am an artist based in Liverpool. I found some copies of ATG in a charity shop and used them for a collage.

ATG letter: Tell the full story of ivory

05 March 2018

MADAM – We write in response to the letter written by Daniel Fearon suggesting a special BBC Antiques Roadshow programme to discuss/ showcase objects solely made of, or incorporating ivory (ATG No 2330).

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