Print issue 2607 (02 September 2023)
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News
- Trade concerns grow after British Museum items ‘offered on eBay’
- Larger and longer: the new Winter Olympia look
- Police renew plea for information on ‘chicken cup’ stolen in 2019
- Paintings by the Birleys come to auction
- Literary agent Pollinger's collection sheds light on Alcock pottery
- Earthly pleasures: Avisseau's basin draws dramatic bidding at Strawser’s auction
- Charlotte Bronte looks back to her days as Currer Bell
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2607
- ‘Earliest international rugby cap’ at auction
- Pick of the week: Lessons pointed the poor towards job skills
- Precious metals prices: issue 2607
- News in brief including Hever Castle's plea to help track down stolen miniature portraits
Feature
- CERAMICS & GLASS: What’s your poison? Auction lots show bottles evolved for safety reasons
- Auctioneer Alan Blakeman: ‘Someone accused me of making these bottle find stories up…’
- Raise your Jacobite drinking glass to toast the Old and Young Pretenders
- Wine bottle pays tribute to a Wedgwood
- Claret jug on an Odyssey
- Classic goblet takes £4000
- May the good ship Woolford have a safe journey
- Salisbury sale includes pieces from the Jonathan Horne collection
- Doulton jug does its Nelson duty
- Goss Harvard rarity emerges in a group lot
- Desirable Doulton: inkwells and ashtray
- Sip soup from a Minton boar’s head
- Mason’s shows signs of making a collecting comeback
- Bizarre beast catches the attention
- Sale underlines stateside popularity of Wedgwood
- Dutch lot bowls over bidders
- William and Mary portraits drive delftware demand
- Parcours prepares for action once again
Collector Interview
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Bidders just dig the Mary Potter style
- If at first you don’t succeed, try a new estimate
- Eurich’s mystery girl makes notable price
- A Duncan Grant market tester
Books & Works On Paper
- The colourful world of Norman Bobins
- Rare Canadiana in Sussex… and another Norman Bobins
- British and Irish book auctions, August 28-September 14, 2023
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Pangolin London: ‘5000 works handled in 15 years’
- Dealer news in brief including Abbott and Holder's under £50 web page
- 5 Questions with Japanese arts specialist Malcolm Fairley
- The web shop window: pair of Blue John lanterns
International
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Horti fair back after the holiday
- Ready teddy go for keen collectors in Kensington
- Epsom fair takes root under Tree of Ages control
Letters
- Very handy for a house clearance
- Stay alert to prevent crime
- I am searching for Keith Henderson’s ‘little book’
- Hewson and Forster: ‘the home of art in Sheffield’
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