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Christie’s sales fall 11% to £2.8bn
16 February 2009CHRISTIE’S year-end results for 2008 show that Europe, including the UK, is currently their premier global market in terms of sales, with a total of £1.24bn compared to £1.02bn in the United States.
Knibb’s token of appreciation makes double estimate
16 February 2009Positive news from Dreweatts' clocks sale at Donnington Priory, Newbury on February 10 which posted a 92 per cent selling rate.
The gift to say thank you for being saved from treason
16 February 2009BY 1780, John Trumbull (1756-1843), a budding young artist from Lebanon, Connecticut who had sketched the Revolutionary War, found himself in grave difficulty.
Former ABA president jailed over book thefts
16 February 2009A FORMER president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association has admitted stealing dozens of books from Sir Evelyn de Rothschild valued at a total of around £230,000.
Doulton figure takes £10,500 in Dorchester
09 February 2009Melting bidders' hearts in a snow-covered Dorchester, this rare Doulton figure of a little girl cradling a doll proved the star attraction at Duke's sale on February 5-6.
Paris finds reasons for optimism in 2009
09 February 2009IN Paris the auction year will start in the most spectacular manner with the Yves Saint Laurent/Bergé collection sale on February 23-24. But 2009 holds out promise for the French art market in other areas too.
Gallic prisoners’ slice of history at £10,000
09 February 2009Prisoner-of-war work is the name given to intricately crafted small objects created from carved bone or wood and straw marquetry by captured French prisoners languishing in the hulks and other jails during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
Taxman offers a sympathetic ear on business payments
09 February 2009THE Inland Revenue are calling for more firms to use their new Business Payment Support Service after receiving more than 44,500 phone calls asking for help since it was launched in November.
Prices down for top-end art but buyers are still there
09 February 2009THE flagship art sales in London saw a good take up last week after estimates were cut by as much as 40 per cent from their boom levels.
ATG Media aim to fill vacuum left by eBay Live Auctions
09 February 2009ATG Media have launched their bid to replace eBay as the primary provider of live online auctions. There have been several companies jockeying for position since the demise of eBay Live Auctions at the end of last year, but ATG Media, who also own Antiques Trade Gazette, argue that their new partnership scheme offers the best deal.
Mallett focus on cost control as chief executive departs
06 February 2009BOND Street dealership Mallett have replaced chief executive Lanto Synge in the wake of the company’s weakening performance and rising costs.
Italian consoles tables bring £28,000 in Devon
06 February 2009Remarkable for both their size and their original condition, this pair of Italian console tables c,1760 sold for £28,000 Semley Auctioneers of Shaftesbury in Dorset on January 24.
Turner the toast of Old Master sales in New York
06 February 2009IT doesn’t happen very often that either Sotheby’s or Christie’s can claim a major sales victory over their rivals, but at the latest Old Masters series in New York one side came out the clear winners.
Insurance expert sounds alert over consignment premiums
06 February 2009A LEADING fine art insurer has alerted UK auctioneers that they may be breaking the law in the way they provide insurance cover for items consigned for auction.
An honest payday from Reg and Ron
06 February 2009MEMENTOS of the notorious Kray Twins amassed while they served life sentences in Parkhurst and Broadmoor were offered in some 160 lots at Chiswick Auctions on the evening of January 26.
Warner collection excels at CSK
26 January 2009Fittingly for a man whose career started in the 1930s, last week's sale of the Roger Warner collection at Christie's South Kensington was just like old times.
Furniture prices static while other markets fall
26 January 2009Inertia again characterised the Antiques Collectors' Club's annual Antique Furniture Index (AFI) in 2008. But in a year when so many economic investments ended up performing poorly, a negligible fall of one per cent was far from devastating.
New Troika fakes emerge on eBay
26 January 2009Readers are being urged to be aware of a new batch of counterfeit Troika wares that are being offered for sale on eBay.
Siege notes in mint condition sold in Bury St Edmunds
26 January 2009Today Robert Baden-Powell is best known as the founder of the Boy Scout movement in 1908, but in the Edwardian era his name was synonymous with the Boer War, and specifically the 217 wretched days from October 1899 to May 1900.
VAT boost for Paris jewellery
26 January 2009THE appeal of Paris as an auction centre for jewellery received a boost at the start of the year, when France slashed import VAT on “rare” or “high value” jewellery from 19.6 per cent to 5.5 per cent.
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