Letters to the Editor

MADAM – The Antique Metalware Society, whose members specialise in objects made from base metals, has launched a new website which it hopes will be a source of information on, and stimulate interest in, antique items made from brass, copper, bronze, paktong, zinc, iron, steel and various types of metal plating.

MADAM – I find your letters page the most interesting part of ATG.

MADAM – I’m late with my response to Terence Pike’s letter in ATG No 2261 in October 2016, asking about shell engraver CH Wood. Better late than never, I hope.

MADAM – I read, as I always do, Ian McKay’s Books and Works on Paper reports in ATG No 2293.

MADAM – I wondered whether it might be possible to appeal to ATG’s sharp-eyed readers to help trace the provenance of a portrait I have recently discovered?

MADAM - I would like to offer an alternative point of view to that of Jenny Fisher, head of modern and contemporary art at Dreweatts, which recently sold a sculpture by my father, John Skeaping.

MADAM – Laura Chester’s article ‘Rising to the Portobello challenge’ (ATG No 2295) accurately describes how the antiques section has been, and still is, the backbone of Portobello Market.

MADAM – I feel the BBC should be given a tactful kick up the bot as the summer schedule of sport means erratic scheduling of Flog It! and Antiques Roadshow.

MADAM – I believe the 'Susanna and the Elders' sold at the Swiss Old Masters sale (ATG No 2292, p4) to be the very painting that I had in 1979 at my Euro Art Centre in Holland.

MADAM – I am writing to say how much I greatly enjoyed your two recent bumper issues: your books special (ATG No 2290) and the edition featuring the dealer round table (ATG No 2291).

MADAM – My compliments on an excellent round table debating the issues facing the trade (ATG No 2291), to which I would very much like to add my views.

MADAM – Following your recent article about Bill Neal’s Chinese mother of pearl gaming counter made for Queen Charlotte, I was touched to read Elizabeth Cannon’s letter in response and tribute to my late husband, David Howard (Letters, ATG Nos 2291 and 2293).

MADAM – I read with interest your story about Evelyn Dunbar’s Joseph’s Dream, which set a world-record price for the artist of £73,500 (£60,000 hammer) at Cheffins on May 11 (ATG No 2292).

DEAR EDITOR – Without wishing to appear nit-picking (really, I don’t) the article in your militaria special that references the Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund Sword (ATG No 2290) describes Captain Rutherford as US-born, in 1764.

MADAM – Following on from your ‘State of the Trade’ debate (ATG No 2291), I would like to add my views concerning the advantages of the BADA merging with LAPADA.

MADAM – Milton Silverman in A lawyer writes (ATG No 2291) sets out useful guidance on the legal status of when the hammer falls.

MADAM – In a recent Fairs & Markets (ATG No 2291) I was very interested to read about Bill Neal’s Queen Charlotte mother of pearl gaming counter.

MADAM – In last week’s Books, Maps & Prints supplement (ATG No 2290), on page 39 it is stated that the German astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered Venus.

MADAM – Rejoice, rejoice. Another elephant has been saved from slaughter for its tusks by the prompt removal of an unworked ivory gong from a profit-earning display at Sandringham (ATG No 2290).

MADAM – I thought you would be pleased to hear that a lost family possession from the 17th century has been returned to me after one of your readers noticed my obscure family name in a recent Dealers’ Diary (ATG No 2276).