Print issue 2380 (23 February 2019)
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News
- Green gallery to defend claim over €5m deal
- Tennants posts £13.3m sales for 2018
- Eye for rare Royal Worcester at Paul Reeves auction
- Two Meiji cloisonné masters emerge in the regions
- Former Wace director Brown to go it alone
- UK contemporary market shows most growth according to latest report
- A Victorian who’s who: Dealer offers 'last of Frith's panoramas in private hands'
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Maker’s great-grandson buys back model steam engine for family from UK dealer
- Bid Barometer
- Precious metals prices: issue 2380
- No, it isn’t a huge carrot…
- News In Brief – including Christie's returning a group of eight antiquities to Italy
Coins & Medals
- At face value: coins and medals sales recover after 2017 dip
- Hammer highlights: 11 coins and medals that struck gold in 2018
Auction Reports
- Cross-section of great designs offered in Essex
- Fine scrimshaw sells in Scarborough
- Revived auction house Hutchinson Scott powers forward
- George IV carriage clock made by James Murray sells over 10-times estimate McTear’s
- ART MARKET: Lots linked to Lord Byron boost single-owner sale at Mellors & Kirk
- Picasso mistress shows her own art skills
- Affordable art: Three works priced under £900 in regional auctions including a David Bates view of the Wye
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Famous facsimiles of Declaration of Independence set records
- Framing technique sets plates up to sell well
- Alphonse Mucha makes Art Nouveau masterpiece
- Tiger of Mysore title works its money magic
- British and Irish book auctions: February 19-March 3, 2019
Collector Interview
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Chessboard checks into Bath fair in a selection of toys and games
- Scottish Colourist with a world view
- 5 Questions: Mark Murray
International
- Paris sale to offer range of animalier bronzes
- Etruscan revival gold bracelet emerges in Maine auction
- Antiquities with a touch of Hollywood to be sold at Philadelphia sale
- Fontainebleau auction to offer Napoleonic chair
- Emile Gallé special piece shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris comes to auction
Fairs & Markets
- Southport furniture dealer whose business is lifted by Runway Monday fair
- East Anglian dealer to run local fair
- Top choices at Wilton House fair
- Fairs form a natural approach to source stock
Letters & Obituary
- Feeling fobbed off by ivory ban response
- Man writes letter to ATG
- Obituary: Michael J Stainer (1935-2019)