Print issue 2404 (17 August 2019)
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News
- Records tumble in sizzling summer sales
- Fresh ‘Constable sketch’ emerges from Holland Park home
- Wright Marshall fine art division closes down
- Art Fund awards boost collecting cash at museums
- ARTIST'S RESALE RIGHT: The ‘rights and wrongs’ of law on resale duties
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Sale supplies simple bear accessory of life as Doulton Lambeth discovery found among the weeds
- Bid Barometer
- Dealer offers cup awarded to Peterloo magistrate who beat demonstrators with stick
- Precious metals
- News In Brief – including an export block issued on JMW Turner landscape
Feature
- ARMS AND ARMOUR: Eager for Hever armour as suit from famous collection reappears
- Siamese sword has eastern edge
- Household Cavalry blades in demand
- Tanto tantalises bidders at Special Auction Services
- German game guns boast royal pedigree
- Arms fair now in 52nd year
- Munich auction house makes move
- Pick of the pistol hammer highs
- Stopping power to halt an angry tiger
- Scottish swords in battle and play
- Sikh tulwar in Italian saleroom
- Russian shashka sword emerges in Amersham
Auction Reports
- Contents of grand Cotswolds home create auction result right at the top of expectations
- ‘Thank heavens for the internet’
- Plenty of quality from BADA member of 46 years
- ART MARKET: The art of pitching it just right
- Charity check unearths Wyld rarity
- Prolific painter pair appears in Dorset saleroom
- Affordable art: Three works sold for £750 or under including Edgar Wood oil painting
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Thar she blows for auction record
- Take the whaleway
- Summer sale quest for first Harry Potter editions
- British and Irish book auctions: August 13-September 1, 2019
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Catalogues keep August active with wide array of items available
- Howe holds warehouse sale for the first time
- The web shop window: Portrait miniature by William Wood
- 5 Questions: Jerrard Nares of Mytton Antiques
- Welsh gallery sings praises of a quiet life
- Tetbury: Taking the long view in the ‘antiques capital of Gloucestershire’
- Dealers in Tetbury get ready for Brexit disruption
- Visitors to Westonbirt fair ‘happy to travel and keen to buy’
International
Fairs & Markets
- Pioneer of Shropshire antiques centre leaves to take up her pen as an author.
- Wilton House Car Boot set for bank holiday weekend
- Exhibitors prepare for Vintage on the Green event taking place in West Sussex
- Fine home for Fairfield centre
Letters & Opinion
The Back Page
Adverts
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