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Top stories this week including news of an Old Master flying to over 60 times estimate
01 September 2024The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an early Netherlandish panel painting of ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ attracting strong interest at a US auction
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Cigarette card lights up Reading auction
30 August 2024A c.1912 cigarette card showing baseball pitcher Rube Marquard was given a ballpark estimate of £300-500 at Loddon Auctions.
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Christie’s to sell Cranach portrait after US museum and Jewish heirs make agreement over restitution
30 August 2024A portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) and his workshop which has been in an American museum since the 1960s will be offered at Christie’s New York in January following an agreement between the institution and the heirs of a Jewish collector.
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Boer War tropical pith helmet fights the good fight at Edinburgh Auction
29 August 2024Thomson Roddick Callan (20% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh held a mammoth two day sale on August 14-15, featuring nearly 1400 lots of antiques and militaria from the Michael Hall of Galashiels Collection.
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National Portrait Gallery appoints its first female director
29 August 2024The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has announced the former fair organiser Victoria Siddall as its new director.
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Macintyre Moorcroft Florian Ware 'peacock' vase shows off at West Sussex auction
29 August 2024The most sought after pieces of Moorcroft are signed by either William or Walter, and for William date from the earlier period of production from 1897-1912.
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Babe Ruth’s ‘called shot’ New York Yankees jersey sets record for any sporting collectable
28 August 2024The 1932 World Series jersey sold at Heritage Auctions for $24.1m, setting a new high for any piece of sporting memorabilia
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Gun from Louis XIII’s famous cabinet sets a record for a wheellock firearm at auction
28 August 2024Result reflects quality and provenance of the remarkable weapon from a renowned collection
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Why two coastline views made contrasting prices at Canterbury auction
28 August 2024Two views of the same stretch of Cornish coastline by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) both attracted interest but made contrasting sums at a recent sale at Canterbury Auction Galleries (25% buyer’s premium).
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Soho gallery celebrates 50th anniversary of David Bowie album
28 August 2024David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' was released in 1974 and Muphoria in Soho is marking the occasion with a Pop Art show
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Rare Vincennes porcelain flowers raise their heads at Selborne auction
27 August 2024A rare lot catalogued as ‘a pair of 18th century European porcelain flower pots probably Meissen or Sèvres… with porcelain flowers’ emerged at Hannam’s Fine Antiques & Collectables sale on August 20.
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Would you believe it? Rare Billy Nicholls LP appears at auction
27 August 2024'Would You Believe' was geared up to be Britain’s response to 'Pet Sounds' by The Beach Boys but was instead shelved
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Mayfair dealer Lyndsey Ingram launches new gallery
27 August 2024Lyndsey Ingram spent the last year restoring an Edwardian stable and is launching the new Mayfair space with a Georgie Hopton show
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George Jones generates majolica animal magic
27 August 2024The 14in (35cm) high giraffe and stag centrepiece, designed at the peak of the majolica boom c.1875, is considered the most coveted of all George Jones models.
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Gujarat group generates Bucks bidding frenzy
27 August 2024For Amersham Auction Rooms, it was just another house clearance.
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Wreck of a Spanish galleon proved valuable for some
27 August 2024A rare James II and Queen Mary of Modena silver medal commemorating a Spanish shipwreck recovered in 1687 sold for four times the top estimate.
Books and works on paper auction calendar, August 28-September 11, 2024
27 August 2024Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales
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Boxing clever for the Aubreys saleroom debut in Surrey
27 August 2024The inaugural Aubreys (25% buyer’s premium) live auction was held in the grounds of Loseley Park in Guildford.
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Textiles: Sumptuous stumpwork emerges from Eve Clarke collection
27 August 2024Examples of this three-dimensional technique stand out as part of a dealer’s collection
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Bid Barometer: issue 2657
27 August 2024ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.
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