Print issue 2559 (17 September 2022)
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News
- Met museum hands back looted artefacts
- Bidders embrace best of Lalla’s Wedgwood Arts and Crafts revival
- Jade thieves ordered to pay back proceeds of auction sales
- Frieze shows it has Seoul
- Bonhams brings oak and folk sale to Scotland
- Autumn auction season begins with deep seated interest in Scottish sofas
- £120,000 sought to keep early Polar flag in Britain
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Collector bids for Saint George and George Forsyth
- ‘The last ever Richardson & Linnell auction’
- News in Brief – including the National Portrait Gallery backing the call to keep Reynolds’ Omai in the UK
- Precious metals prices: issue 2559
- Bid Barometer: issue 2559
Feature
- COINS: BNTA's London showpiece event Coinex returns
- A hoard under boards emerges at Spink
- Buying British abroad as rare coins emerge in Germany and Monaco
- Fowler’s star award on offer at Sovereign Rarities
- Alexander’s distater – the spoils of conquest
- Gold from buttons
- Nantes expo gold medal emerges at Harmers
Auction Reports
- Chinese bone inscriptions star at Alastair Gibson
- St George rides in on a charger
- Vuitton viewed as bric-a-brac
- Tridarn's traditional triumph at Trevanion
- Napoleon III exile skirt among high points at Dominic Winter auction
- Tablecloth and napkins believed to be with royal approval
- Novelty hip flask with Churchill connection drawers bidders in Leominster
- The Swan’s jewels shine among Shakenhurst lots
- ‘The King of Desks’ comes to the UK
- ART MARKET: Squirrell takes a trip from East Anglia to the big city of London
- Former factory worker and miner became Pro artist
- Sheila Fell work climbs to third-highest price
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: First issue copy of Newton’s ‘greatest scientific work’ edges past top estimate
- Reginald was not bewitched by magic claims
- Atomic bomber’s secret logbook made headlines
- British and Irish book auctions: September 13-30, 2022
Previews
Books & Works on Paper
- Fair Preview: Banned books is the theme of this year’s Firsts
- PBFA fair date falls in autumn this year
- Learning made easy as ABC
- The perilious life of Thomas Dangerfield
- Mason’s maritime depictions
- Library gets to the root of agriculture
- Rapoport collection part two on offer at Swann
- Fairytales, fantasies and fables
- Tennyson portrayed by Julia Margaret Cameron
- Gilbert exerts a strong magnetic pull
- Harvard College makes print debut mention
- Sorrows of slavery lamented
- Expand an interest in Beatrix Potter
- Give it some STIK
- Part 1 of a ‘vast’ topographical library at Gorringe’s
- Characteristic of a Parisian workshop
- Comics galore on Tyneside
- Picasso and Hockney highlights at Dominic Winter
- London sale offers accounts of Polar exploration
- Merian marvel in Switzerland
- Natural history and Bible pioneers in Germany
- Riley and Lowry prints offered at Chiswick Auctions
- American early rarities and a Shakepeare First Folio achieve seven-figure sums
- Beyond the wizard: Baum’s Oz makes a record
Dealers’ Diary
- Drawing exhibition puts little-known Yorkshire artist in the spotlight
- Style of Silver gets new Hungerford shopfront
- The web shop window: A children's Art Deco see-saw
- Commons sense: tracking down a parliamentary artist
- 5 Questions: Furniture and works of art dealer David Houlston
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Deco delay but Dorking antiques fair thrives
- Film studios are flooding in, boosting Kempton antiques market
- Vintage fair returns to Primrose Hill church
- Ruby joins in with Jay’s event
Fair report
Letters
- A seal of approval for the waters of Holt
- My bank manager won’t be closing client account
- Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
- Good reception at Ally Pally
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