Print issue 2569 (26 November 2022)
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News
- Bidders battle to take tondo to 208-times top estimate
- LAPADA fair to make 2023 comeback
- Rare survivor: Sydney Cove medallion sells at Scottish sale
- Hampstead dealers fight antiques centre closure plan
- Beswick shire horse gallops to an £11,300 top price
- To be or not to be a portrait of the Bard, that is the question surrounding this £10m work
- Plea for professional body to boost standard of condition reports
- TEFAF Maastricht Showcase expands
- Why a second-hand buy is a first-class acquisition
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Buyer secures a strongbox at last
- Bid Barometer: issue 2569
- Precious metals prices: issue 2569
- ‘The Day the Music Died’ poster sets auction record
- News in Brief – including the auction of memorabilia from the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
Auction Reports
- Sex appeal: Iranian erotic poem
- Iranian incense burner helps to fuel ‘white glove’ sale
- Mirror reflects Hope design
- ‘For Emperor John’ Lennon
- ART MARKET: Picture specialist hails ‘very encouraging’ multi-estimate prices for old-school landscapes
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Flats full to the brim with books
- Agricultural library top of the crops in North Yorkshire
- British and Irish book auctions: November 22-30, 2022
Special Report
- SCULPTURE: Buyers thrill to 3D
- Enwonwu figures highly at auction
- Betjeman and Lowry immortalised in bronze
- Wells took steps to a varied career
- Bugatti for better and Wurst
- Pomodoro in the round
- Chadwick proved his mettle
- Richier sculptures consigned direct from her family
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- British wartime pictures: Tragic times brought inspiration
- Super sampler selection in Oxfordshire
- 5 Questions: dealer and restorer Graham Butler
- The web shop window: 1920s 'barber’s shop' oak chair
- Dealer's London buying trip led to Venice
- Dealer news in brief including treen in demand at Collins Antiques
Feature
- PACKING AND SHIPPING: Delivering the goods
- Shipping: How rising challenges and costs can be overcome
- Online art buying fuels business growth
- Reused, sustainable – but needs packaging
- Changing environment: how to reduce the carbon impact of shipping
- Ship or not to ship? An insurer’s point of view on one of the biggest dealer costs
International
- Ideal for collectors who enjoy the crack
- Flemish tapestry hunted down after wartime wrongs
- BRAFA returns to early slot in the fairs calendar
- Madonna makes second-highest Bellini sum
- Life revealed in terracotta and wood forms
- The frame game in Florida
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Youth of today love a good fair
- Phoenix rises to the occasion
- Going shopping in Suffolk
- Fairs news in brief including Pop Up Vintage Fairs next event
Letters
- Gavel, hammer… but maybe not a jellyfish
- Stat proof of life on Mars
- ATG letter: Can anyone identify this skating scene dated 1934