Print issue 2609 (16 September 2023)
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News
- Big bidding for a small prayer book: Hebrew manuscript takes five times estimate
- PBFA marks 50th with launch of Bath showpiece
- Killer bids as Sotheby’s shows how the celebrity sale is done
- Battle for lowly-estimated Empire period Sèvres plates
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Signing the first captain
- Sir Joshua’s Guercino sketch surfaces Down Under
- News in brief including the Met's purchase of rediscovered picture depicting slave boy with Louisiana family
- Bid Barometer: issue 2609
- Precious metals prices: issue 2609
Books & Works On Paper
- The young guard of the book trade
- What price an early Harry Potter book?
- Harry Potter: the children’s book series that became a phenomenon
- Collector interview: fragments of our medieval past
- Books and works on paper previews
- British and Irish book auctions, September 12-October 2, 2023
Auction Reports
- Cricket rarities catch attention
- Lovely bubbly: cheers to the charitable froth blowers
- Small cabinet full of decorative appeal
- It really was women and children first when HMS Birkenhead sank
- Charles II casket could do with a bit of love
- ART MARKET: De Laszlo - now we’re talking
- Frank Owen Salisbury in tune with a cellist
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- LAPADA Fair has landed
- Forty flock to sell at The Northern Antiques Fair
- 5 Questions with dealer Jane Burgett of Dansk Silver
- Feathers, flowers, fruit at an art fair... from the comfort of home
International
- Summer series of Riviera sales sees Zrzavy works shine in Cannes
- Hiroshige hauled out of a cupboard
- Capron creates tile-topped table
- Gustave Alaux has a ball in Saint-Domingue
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Organiser adds two Oxfordshire flagship events to busy schedule
- Henley ticket sales look healthy
- Books begin new chapter with a binder
Letters
- Horten sale – Where do we draw the line?
- Remember Crystal Palace 1900?
- Please keep interviewing collectors
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