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Hope (or Smith) for the furniture market

16 August 2005

Lincolnshire auctioneers Golding Young established a new house record on August 10 when they sold this superb mahogany breakfront side cabinet right for £135,000 (plus 15 per cent buyer’s premium).

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Ten-day German castle sale

16 August 2005

A DECADE after the Thurn und Taxis and Baden Baden sales in the 1990s, Sotheby’s are once again decamping to a German castle to stage another mammoth aristocratic auction.

Encouragement on droit de suite. Government holds fire on key points

16 August 2005

INITIAL Government responses to recommendations made during the consultation on droit de suite are encouraging for the art market.

Third floor at The Showplace

16 August 2005

One of Manhattan’s best-known antique centres, The Showplace, is expanding its 30,000 square ft premises with the addition of a new floor that will open in early October.

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Gosnell’s giant among pot lids

16 August 2005

At first glance there’s nothing very exciting at all about this Prattware pot lid.

Improved commission margins help Sotheby’s prosper as sales fall

16 August 2005

Despite a substantial fall in total sales, increases in buyer’s premium and vendor’s commission margins helped Sotheby’s post record revenues for the second quarter of 2005.

Wintertons Fine Arts to leave Lichfield

10 August 2005

Wintertons are moving out of the Lichfield Auction Centre as part of a plan to join their property and livestock divisions under one roof in a new auction centre.