Print issue 2630 (17 February 2024)
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News
- Mug commemorating real-life crime 1823 style flies to 10 times estimate
- Noonans takes top coins and medals spot
- US auction house Morphy unveils transatlantic tie-up with Swiss firm
- Classic fairs expands after a debut success
- Bidders get their teeth into bizarre Churchill memorabilia
- Found in a cooker, in boxes, under a loose floorboard… the amazing Withers collection
- Crowning glories: TV show sale nets more than £1m
- Dealers and auctioneers react after Sotheby’s shock changes to both buyer’s and vendor’s fees
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Coachbuilders archive rolls up to £25,000
- Shackleton’s Polar Medal blocked from export
- News in brief including a stolen Chinese bronze vessel recovered and returned
- Bid Barometer: issue 2630
- Precious metals prices: issue 2630
Special Report
- COINS AND MEDALS: Stable currency but market is far from static
- Gallantry top-seller: Crimean War naval VC
- Early Queen Anne before Acts of Union
- Broken die ensures token’s rarity
- Octavian coin sets a house record
- Black Prince with lions and ostriches
- Dambuster scored a direct hit using bombsight he designed
- Argentina starts to emerge in coins market
- Persian and Greek tributes paid
- Masterpiece of Greek numismatic art
- Comprehensive East India Company collection
- Banknotes from coronation year
- The Iraqi note now worth £100,000
- Basel basilisk flies again at auction
Auction Reports
- Wemyss collected over decades comes to auction in Edinburgh
- Classic Ashbee piano comes with fine provenance
- Italian tazzae take top prices as part of Belgravia selection
- ART MARKET: West Country painter Michael Morgan's work offered en masse for first time
- Gray’s apocalyptic vision of Glasgow acted as anti-nuclear bomb protest
Books & Works On Paper
- Bible bidders spot a King James sleeper
- Fantasy mag key to creating Games Workshop empire
- Slave trader who repented his sins tells his own story
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, February 14-29, 2024
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- God bless American buyers: Battersea decorative fair benefits from Stateside decorators visiting
- LARTA exhibitors report strong sales and new buyers
- Serpent study by De Morgan slithers into view
- Eye on an Object: a 17th century spice cabinet
- Married artists brought together at last at New York show
International
- ‘Patience and taste personified’: more lots from the outstanding Ann and Gordon Getty collection
- Lalique and Doulton star in Florida saleroom
- St Roch rises miraculously among New York lots
- Scrimshaw reminder of the whaler that was captained and crewed by African-Americans
- Deluxe rifle ‘belonged to Napoleon’
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Yorkshire Dales antiques entrepreneur discovers another opportunity
- London arms fair finds new venue in Woodford Green
- Major collecting fest on the cards
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