Print issue 2279 (18 February 2017)

News

• Art historians: ‘elephant slaughter must stop but don’t ban trade in antique ivory’
• Major theft hits antiquarian books
• £11,400 Dresser chair saved from the tip
• Auctioneers told: get house in order over fees by March
• David Moss funeral details
• Ivory: ‘This is not a black and white issue’
• Glimmers of hope light up the ivory debate
• Old Master dispute set for high court
• Saleroom to offer Greenhalgh ‘after LS Lowry’
• Nash attribution wrangle

News Digest

• Top story: Christie’s results show “challenging” market
• Pick of the Week: Back after 11 months locked in an icy prison
• Bid Barometer
• Oprah’s $150m Klimt
• News In Brief

The Back Page

• Then & Now
• People
• Soapbox

Coins & Medals

• Changing faces of London’s coin market
• London sale highlights 2016
• George Cross recipient ‘steadfastly refused to utter one word’
• Dix Noonan Webb
• Spink
• Bonhams
• Remembering the other Kitchener
• Woolley & Wallis
• Charterhouse
• Coins and medals form part of new sale in Brum
• Wolf of Waterloo
• Sheffield Auction Gallery

Auction Reports

• Nice little earners for salerooms
• Ceramic fave names that will sell well
• Sold and bold as brass
• Libation cup takes top spot
• Home sweet home – at House & Son
• Stage set for theatrical flourishes
• Competition levels rise as Alpine landscape auctions
• Cossack leads the way
• The artist who displayed god-given talent
• Early prints of the books realm
• Full English selection

Previews

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Dealer’s Diary

• Get a handle on the 18th century
• Art turns over new leaves
• 5 Questions: Jo Bennett
• Dealer’s discovery paints poignant post-war picture
• Two events covered in one

International

• Sculpture quick out of the blocks
• Washington DC
• Paris
• Texas

Auction Calendar

• Early exploration of a Polar hero
• BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Fairs & Markets

• Dealer who came out of her Shell
• Deco-style delights
• Blow-by-blow accounts from glass masters
• Vintage venture is a hive of industry old and modern
• Jaguar Fairs takes a bite into Nottingham for new event

Letters to the editor

• Ivory battle lines being drawn
• What about the innocent collectors?
• More of your David Moss memories
• Great character
• Happy and hazy recollections
• The thinking behind an online bidding system
• Balancing the needs of bidders and auctioneers

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