Print issue 2521 (11 December 2021)
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News
- Royal Mail blip adds books to EU banned list
- Ken Spelman bookshop to close in York
- Major jewellery theft from Partridge saleroom
- Antique jades at large after Bedfordshire criminal case
- ‘Sweet tin’ silver shilling brings £220,000
News Digest
- Pick of the week: The positive diagnosis for a medieval rarity
- Bid Barometer: issue 2521
- Chess: Ah, that’ll be the good old Ruy Lopez opening
- Precious metals prices: issue 2521
- News In Brief – including news of masks to be worn in auction houses and shops
Feature
- WATCHES: Why pocket watches sit in a tricky space in horological collecting
- Digging deep for the Deep Sea Special
- Look beyond the brand to find a great chronograph
- The untold story of the English wristwatch pioneers
- Speedy buyers with a taste for chocolate
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Barns-Graham and her friends
- Jagger portrait captures wartime fortitude
- Dealer Philip Mould buys Fry French view
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Horror hammer highlights
- British and Irish book auctions: December 7-21, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Modernist painter Emilie Charmy ‘should be remembered at the forefront of the movement’, says dealer
- 5 Questions: Modern design dealer Linda Hetherington
- The web shop window: Austrian artist's ‘Antics on the Ice'
- Special festive selection of dealers' shows for Christmas 2021
International
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Astra mural ready for take-off
- Dealers pre-booking stands at Sue Ede's fair in Shepton Mallet
- Grandma goes Woking
- Collectors’ market still going strong in Cirencester
- Fifty stalls along the high street in Guildford
Letters
- My concern over increasing number of suffragette fakes
- Cider gatherers bring in a sizeable harvest of responses
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