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Hong Kong series expands

04 June 2007

Not one but two international auction houses conducted sales series in Hong Kong in May.

NAVA to merge with NAEA

04 June 2007

THE National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA) has voted to merge with the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).

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Teddy Roosevelt’s big game toys make £14,000 in Yorkshire

04 June 2007

Despite riding the crest of a wave of popularity, Theodore Roosevelt declined to run again for the presidency in 1908. Instead he anointed William Howard Taft as his successor and famously embarked upon a year of big game hunting in Africa.

Experienced team to open Bloomsbury NY saleroom

04 June 2007

BLOOMSBURY Auctions are launching a new saleroom in New York.

Haughtons to launch quality fair in Dubai

29 May 2007

FOLLOWING rumours in the trade, London-based fair organisers Brian and Anna Haughton have confirmed exclusively to ATG that they will launch a high-end international fair in Dubai next February.

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Fangtastic price as fetish figure sells for €520,000

29 May 2007

Munich auctioneers Hermann Historica are known internationally as experts for arms and armour, medals and historical collectibles rather than tribal art, so they were on unfamiliar territory with lot 3324 in their latest blockbuster sale held from May 2 to 11.

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Show celebrates 150 years of the RCA

29 May 2007

A futuristic helicopter, an armchair you can’t get out of, vibrating disco shoes, a collapsible bicycle wheel and a jacket that reduces jet lag.