Print issue 2342 (19 May 2018)
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News
- French rooms to team up for Aristophil sales
- Mossgreen ‘won’t be the last’ until trust accounts compulsory
- Birmingham fair broadens its weekend appeal
- ‘End of an era’ as Iconastas sells up
- White-glove Rockefeller auction enters the record books
- BADA says ivory ban fighting fund is receiving ‘positive response’
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: Price is right on the gunmoney
- Bid Barometer
- Honours from the other Duke of Cambridge
- News In Brief – including a 1938 London Underground poster selling in New York
Auction Reports
- Silver accessible at three figures
- Items once core to collections
- Special taste of Battersea wine labels
- Mythical beasts and snail in harmony in Salisbury
- Choice Royal Doulton comes back to market
- Lots of life in top-level Meiji
- Medals recall striking talent of ‘Bomber’
- Dolls head to Norway and Australia
- Cabinet price beaten only by record Rolex
- ART MARKET: Oriental art experiences West to East buyer shift
- Egyptian art is a modern highlight
- Miller duo displays strong Hamburg link
- Saleroom selection: Three pictures under £500, including Hevezi's townscape of Stoke
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Bird books flock to auctions
- Darwin letters to Bonn botanist sell in Cologne
- Corruption, catechisms and cacti
- Rare Michelin guide leads to five figures
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
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- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Fresh chapter in the books story as ABA fair aims to expand its appeal with a new title and location
- Fair offers work which was key to French prose
- Whitford creates a Caziel rhythm
- 5 Questions: Pierre-Yves Guillemet
- Piper and his pleasing decay
- Party at the palace
- Table is very pretty in pink
International
- Hamilton collection proves near sell-out in Philadelphia saleroom
- Perfect look for the Florida beach house
- Chiparus figures headline Fischer collection at Tajan
- Vintage toys walk down the avenue into New Jersey auction
- Orientalist view of the Pyramids emerges at Madrid auction
- Thomire candlesticks offered at Duran Subastas sale
- Pietro Liberi's Allegory of Spring unveiled in Rome auction
Auction Calendar
Fairs & Markets
- Jewellers enjoy the Frock Me fun
- Artist admires wonderful wood
- Be an antiques tourist in the north thanks to new guide
- Fine weekend despite weather at Newbury Showground
Around the Auction Houses
- Straw blimey: the Sworders view over a decade
- Oriental art is latest specialist sale for Suffolk saleroom
- Summers Place Auctions marks a decade of quirky offerings
- New Spink medals head praises reinforcements
- Auction house movers and shakers – including Roseberys appointing a former Christie’s specialist
Letters to the editor
- UK ivory trade ban won’t aid elephant populations
- Legal case over ivory ban is too late now
- Join us in funding legal challenge over ivory ban
- A barn-storming tale and other memories of Sir William McAlpine
The Back Page
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