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Phillips open London HQ for Frieze sale
02 September 2006Phillips de Pury & Company will raise the curtain on their new London headquarters with a Contemporary Art and Design Art sale on October 14.
Queen Elizabeth paid more, but narwhal tusks are still prized
02 September 2006THE spectacular and enigmatic spiralling tooth that grows from the upper jaw of the male monodon monoceros, long gave credence to the existence of the unicorn.
Chariot cancellation
02 September 2006The formal state carriage from the family of the Marquess of Londonderry scheduled to be sold by Thimbleby & Shorland on September 6 has been withdrawn from sale by the vendor.
Devon in Nottinghamshire
02 September 2006A vast photographic postcard archive depicting Devon in the first half of the 20th century has emerged in Nottinghamshire.
Polly de Courcy-Ireland treen collection to be sold on September 20
02 September 2006A long-standing member of both the British Antique Dealers’ Association and the vetting committee at the Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, the late Polly de Courcy-Ireland, who died last year, was without doubt one of the country’s leading authorities on treen. First opened in 1972, her shop in Alresford, Hampshire was a favourite with collectors for over 30 years.
Racoon Finally taken at £73,000
22 August 2006"They kept their resolution longer than I expected, keeping us in action from 7 in the morning till [?] in the afternoon and to carry the scene on in a military manner they came down upon us, sounding the charge and their army colours flying, and in this manner continued till they were beaten to atoms. "
It will be a stylish marriage
22 August 2006In the family of the Marquess of Londonderry since it was built sometime in the latter quarter of the 19th century, this formal state carriage is deemed the finest to appear at auction for a generation.
Gun retailers turn auctioneers
15 August 2006On September 10, Litts, the UK’s largest retailer of sporting guns, is holding its inaugural auction of stock.
Four more Klimts will be sold
15 August 2006CHRISTIE’s have announced that they are to sell the four remaining works by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) that were part of the high profile Bloch-Bauer restitution case.
Selling the Wright stuff
15 August 2006This recently discovered oil landscape by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–97) will be offered for sale by Richard Winterton at Hilliards Cross, Lichfield on August 31.
Horse race in a fish tank
15 August 2006It’s not difficult to see how Dunhill ‘fish tank’ lighters got their name. Not only do these 1950s perspex and electroplated lighters resemble miniature aquariums, but most were decorated with aquatic subjects.
Woodworker receives a £16,000 rebate
07 August 2006In June 1941 an 18-year-old apprentice cabinetmaker, L.F. Gillet of Stratford-on-Avon, won first prize in the prestigious Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers annual competition. The prize was a dovetailed steel and rosewood rebating mitre the ASW had specially commissioned from the Norris factory.
Bonhams Shout: VC best smashed
07 August 2006“WE will make a name for ourselves and Australia tomorrow.” This was how Captain Shout fired up his band of troops the night before the assault at Gallipoli in the First World War.
Auctioneers work hard to generate demand in golf market
05 August 2006More than two decades since the first sale of golfing memorabilia, this once-booming niche market stands at an important crossroads.
Found in the attic: Benjamin money
25 July 2006Four Beatrix Potter watercolour Christmas cards, recently discovered in a Wiltshire attic, will be sold by Highworth, Swindon auctioneers Kidson-Trigg on September 20. The cards have been consigned by descendants of the original recipients, Elizabeth (1888-1977) and Elinor (1886-1979) Lupton.
Cup runneth over for Chiswick Auction Rooms
25 July 2006Underscoring a strength of demand for rhinoceros horn pieces seen in the recent specialist Asian sales, Chiswick Auctions achieved a house record on July 18 when this rhinoceros horn libation cup carved with carp feeding on a waterlily sold to a Taiwanese dealer at £46,000 (plus 15 per cent buyer’s premium). The 18th or possibly 17th century vessel was discovered by auctioneer William Rouse on the sideboard of a modest home in Hanwell, one of West London’s less fashionable suburbs.
Up to speed – M1 number plate sets £300,000 record at Goodwood
18 July 2006M1, one of the most sought-after UK registration numbers, set a new world record price for a car number plate when it sold for £300,000 at Bonhams’ Goodwood Festival of Speed sale of Sports, Competition and Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia on July 7.
When did you last see your Dadd?
18 July 2006Enigmatic, elusive, rarely seen, and classified as mad – but that’s our Dadd!
Cook’s proof that money can indeed grow on trees
18 July 2006OF the many publications generated by Captain Cook’s exploits in the Pacific, the most curious is surely A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth Collected in the Three Voyages of Captain Cook to the Southern Hemisphere...
Is £2.5m a bargain for the Bard?
18 July 2006IT set a British auction record for a Shakespeare First Folio and made the highest price ever seen for a printed book at Sotheby’s London (20/12% buyer’s premium) – but hushed voices at the back of the saleroom were suggesting that the £2.5m hammer price represented pretty good value for a near-perfect copy of the most important book in English literature.
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