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Previews: £5001 - £30,000

23 March 2020

Our weekly selection from salerooms. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise any bidders to check in advance that the auction will take place as planned.

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Scott’s tipple: glass jugs with a polar connection

23 March 2020

Among the Antarctic lots in the Travel & Exploration sale at Bonhams, the outstanding result came for a group of three glass jugs with silver lids, rims and, in two cases, hanging labels marked 'Whiskey'.

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Portraits of mystery young women catch the eye in auctions

23 March 2020

Two alluring early-20th century British school portraits of attractive young women caught the eye in recent regional sales. Both modestly estimated, they brought similar four-figure sums.

Bank on early financial works

23 March 2020

Rare works in South Cerney sale document the formative years of the Bank of England

Business rates are updated

23 March 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set out a package of temporary measures to support businesses through the Covid-19 period of disruption.

British and Irish book auctions: March 24-April 4, 2020

23 March 2020

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

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Chandelier shines in Los Angeles

23 March 2020

A highlight of the sale held by Andrew Jones (25% buyer’s premium) in Los Angeles on February 23 was this impressive 24-light cut and moulded glass chandelier with a 6ft 6in (1.98m) drop.

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Precious metals prices: issue 2435

23 March 2020

On Friday, March 20, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1504.45 / €1389.59 / £1275.32

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Previews: Up to £800

23 March 2020

Our weekly selection from salerooms. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise any bidders to check in advance that the auction will take place as planned.

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Previews: £801 - £2000

23 March 2020

Our weekly selection from salerooms. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise any bidders to check in advance that the auction will take place as planned.

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Doulton Lambeth frogs and cricketers make for a lively sale

23 March 2020

A c.1880 Doulton Lambeth stoneware tobacco jar and cover was one of the pleasant surprises at a recent David Duggleby (18.75% buyer’s premium) sale in Scarborough.

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Gaming board pays £30,000

23 March 2020

A valuation day in Tunbridge Wells led to the consignment of a late-16th century south German rosewood and bone gaming board at Catherine Southon.

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The web shop window: a 1932 classic British motorcycle

23 March 2020

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

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How Adams Antiques Fairs' London event went ahead before future dates were postponed

23 March 2020

The round of applause that broke out for fair organiser Matthew Adams at the Royal Horticultural Halls on Sunday, March 15 was loud and, exhibitors said, very well-earned.

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Cunning plan for Blackadder estate

23 March 2020

Houstoun-Boswall consignment includes Robert Adam’s proposal for Scottish country house

Shells sell in Edinburgh

23 March 2020

Containing some 600 hand-coloured engraved plates, a set of Sowerby and De Carle’s 'The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain…' of 1812-29 was just another of the many attraction in a sale last month held by Lyon & Turnbull.

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5 Questions: Susanne Schulz-Falster

23 March 2020

Susanne Schulz-Falster deals in rare books from Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

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Many ways to buy from annual St Ives show

23 March 2020

An exhibition of St Ives Modernism is to go ahead with all works available online.

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Baroque ivory sleeper could be Schenck masterwork

23 March 2020

This stellar 17th century Baroque ivory plaque depicting the Pieta attended by angels and putti carries the name 'IC Storer' for the German artist Johann Christoph Storer (1621-71).

‘Reclining Man’ by Nina Hamnett

Sotheby’s reports ‘surge’ in online buying as clients forced to bid from home

18 March 2020

In one of the first tests of the art market since the UK government announced tougher ‘social distancing’ guidance due to the coronavirus outbreak, Sotheby’s latest ‘Made in Britain’ auction recorded a dramatic increase in online bidding.

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