Print issue 2626 (20 January 2024)
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News
- Ruskin pottery factory collection in demand
- Midlands April art fair is postponed
- Wedding textile takes 144 times its top estimate
- Dealer’s books shine light on furniture history
- Hindman and Freeman’s merge as major US auction house shake-up continues
- New ownership for B2B Events’ Malvern showground events
- On the hunt for book linking Collins and Dickens
- New Stanley Gibbons and Baldwin’s set-up announced after rescue
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Troubled treaty port revealed in photo form
- Budgen art comes to auction via Paul Martin
- Bid Barometer: issue 2626
- Precious metals prices: issue 2626
- News in brief including export blocks for a Medieval carving and Fra Angelico panel
Feature
- FOOTBALL MEMORABILIA: Making a match – shirts worn in action sought by collectors
- Panini also a World Cup winner in 1970 – plus Newton Heath trade card
- Single owner collection of football pictures pitch up in the saleroom
- Baggies bonanza as West Brom FA Cup winner's medal from 1931 nets £5000
Auction Reports
- A corking vernacular selection on offer in South Yorkshire saleroom
- Carved coral pendant created in a style typical of Trapani
- Clean sweep: group of gemellion hand-washing basins at five figures
- Claret with character thanks to a novelty jug
- ART MARKET: How George Romney was riled by prison hardship
- Lost poignant wartime painting by Matania lives on in the form of a copy
- Intriguing picture of Second World War female ambulance volunteers emerges
Books & Works On Paper
- Health tips from the Middle Ages: Ibn Butlan’s Tacuini sanitatis
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, January 17-February 1, 2024
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Textiles take centre stage at fairs, exhibitions and auction
- Roman tapestry work of Romano
- Five questions with Mehmet Keskiner of Kent Antiques
- Fresh start for Master Drawings New York fair
International
- Louis XV table returns home for public display after auction
- Gallé rocks with rare glass vase at auction
- Fragonard the fashionable choice at Paris auction
- Gobelins pietra dura panel picked out at six figures at Paris auction
- Fair preview: BRAFA finds its feet at Brussels venue
- The wow factor: remainder of remarkable Getty collection comes up in New York
- Trade hub painting itself intended for export
- Fishing for Martinware in Hollywood
- Famous framemaker's stock offered without reserve auction
- Moon flask shone ‘in Brighton Pavilion’
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Organiser of relaunched Ally Pally event needs more stallholders to get on board
- Three London fairs to visit on the same day
- Snow fails to put off punters at the Pavilion Gardens
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