Print issue 2291 (13 May 2017)
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News
- Dealer survey: customer focus tops ivory and Brexit as issues
- Turkey appeals against stargazer sale
- Nazi-looted picture withdrawn from sale in Austria
- Antiquarian book trade loses two of its titans after deaths of Frank Herrmann and Roy Davids
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: silver centrepiece races to Rijksmuseum
- Bid Barometer
- Boston museum settles Nazi dispute
- News In Brief
Opinion
Auction Reports
- Studio ceramics in starring role at auction
- Cranes fly high at Edinburgh sale
- Salmon cast reeled in at Mitchells
- Nine phone lines compete for outstanding card tables
- Royal rarity lifts Doulton figure price
- ART MARKET: Travels into the art ‘twilight zone’ amid Brexit and election market turbulence
- Another Fauvist work emerges from Northampton
- German Expressionist works from collector who fled Nazis
- Alphabet images spell sale interest
- Local artist view of town of Beverley thrills
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Hemingway under the hammer in New York auction
- Hunter S Thompson's fearful and loathsome jacket
- Dive in to bid for pioneering swimming works
- Scarfe savages all before him with 130 works at auction
- First Just William work takes rightful pole position
- Historian has a swing at covering ‘world’s first golf club’
- Literary path begins for Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain
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Dealer’s Diary
- Keeping the special relationship: Transatlantic duo launch London gallery in a shining example of UK and US harmony
- Fifty-stone ‘calf’ hoofs it along to Robert Young’s gallery
- Shop talk: St. Reatham Antiques
- 5 Questions: Church Street dealer Daniel Levy
- Suffolk dealer hopes for growing interest with antiques for the garden
- Get wise to Edward Lear artworks at London dealer's exhibition
International
- Danish Art Deco daybed on offer in Copenhagen auction
- Francis Picabia female figure sketch on offer in Madrid
- Berenice Abbott New York photos on sale in same city
- Chinese automaton clock chimes at Paris auction
- Portrait of a Man stands out in Munich
- Fruit seller automaton winds way to Cologne sale
- Painting by Javanese prince emerges at Van Ham in Cologne
- Privately printed edition of Lawrence of Arabia's classic at New York auction
- Diamond cluster rings with Kashmir sapphires offered at Milan jewellery auction
Auction Calendar
Fairs & Markets
- Game on for fair dealer who sells Chinese counters
- Dolls show moves house for spring selection
- Staying serene in modern Stamford
- Country house fair shows great in tent
- New angle as fishing fair venue changes
- Deco down in the south of London
Letters to the editor
The Back Page
- A LAWYER WRITES: Best make it a flamboyant bid
- Asian art specialist offers free valuations in return for charitable donations
- Then & now: The cargo sales phenomenon
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