Print issue 2296 (17 June 2017)
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News
- NAVA head Colin Young's message to auctioneers: ‘Get qualified and regulated’
- BADA’s Borwick loses Kensington seat
- Criterion open valuation office in South Kensington
- 'Little Gurie' Fabergé silver cup delivers £19,000 result
- Lots Road Auctions to relocate
- Arlington Conservation stock sale reflects contraction in market
Newsmaker
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: Charles Rennie Mackintosh ‘white bedroom’ chair bid to $470,000
- Bid Barometer
- Essex sale benefits from Herculean effort
- News In Brief
Feature
- Clocks and watches: craftsmanship with precision timing
- Bright spark’s invention at Paris auction
- Bakelite watch survives ravages of time
- Rediscovered John Fromanteel longcase clock emerges at Bonhams
- Horological high achievers at Sotheby's
- Rare Rolex Submariner wristwatch takes £135,000 at Bath auction
- Clock to celebrate Garrard's Royal approval sells at £1700
- Tower of strength as figural clock takes £5000 at Chiswick Auctions
- Profile of Edward Burd: a specialist showing his wallpower
Auction Reports
- Silver standard sets pulses racing at Dublin auction
- Hand of Daum is good news at Cheltenham auction
- Calculating a good price - slide rule fetches £9500 at auction
- Nothing like a dame for provenance - ballerina after Barre sells in Gloucestershire
- ART MARKET: Phoenix rises from tiger's ashes at Irish auctions
- The Gillian Bowler Irish art collection sells at Adam’s
- Abstract attractions at de Veres Irish sale
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Inscriptions provide vital 'Spark' in Edinburgh auction
- ‘Bruges Master’ produces something of the knight at German auction
- Book at German auctioneers led to an Inquisition
- Trio of record-breakers at Forum Auctions
- The words on the street - record for Sinclair Lewis' 1920 first at Swann
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealer’s Diary
- Olympia fair draws out designs for life
- Q&A with Olympia returner James Brett
- Harry Moore-Gwyn offers Sir George Clausen works on paper at Olympia
- Emporium is added to Asian art empire
- 5 Questions: Matt Dixon of TallBoy Unique Interiors
- Frost creates warm atmosphere
- Dealers join forces on Cotswolds campaign
International
- Asian auctions make a ‘Gexit’
- Bidders battle for Old Masters in Vienna and Cologne
- Malaysian artist makes rare visit
Auction Calendar
Fairs & Markets
- Chance discovery at auction inspires Suffolk dealer to launch a book of historic views
- It’s teatime at Two C’s
- Harleston market takes to the road for the fourth time
- End-of-the-revived-pier show roars into Hastings
- Handmade ceramics charging into Nottinghamshire event
Letters to the editor & Opinion
- Help me trace George Eliot trail
- Boot put into BBC
- The Wright price for the new hypothesis of the universe
- It's time to recognise scupltor John Skeaping as more than just ‘the first husband of Barbara Hepworth’
- Diversity is key to Portobello Market
The Back Page
- Moves and appointments
- Then & now
- Soapbox: do smaller and more select fairs make better business sense?
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