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The story so far…50 years of headlines
13 September 2021A review of top stories year-by-year and our pick of the notable objects sold from 1971 to 2021. What can recent trends tell us about the future?
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Single-owner recollections: 20 longstanding ATG readers share their memories
13 September 2021We asked some of our longest-standing subscribers to share their memories of their early years of trading and how the launch of ATG changed their business.
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Timeline of events: 2000-2009
13 September 2021A selection of the memorable news from ATG editions in the 2000s
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Timeline of events: 1980-1989
13 September 2021A selection of the memorable news from ATG editions in the 1980s
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Introduction: How ATG continues to support the fine art and antiques industry after half a century
13 September 2021This special edition of Antiques Trade Gazette celebrates the newspaper’s 50th anniversary. Every week for the past 50 years, the Gazette has brought unrivalled news coverage and analysis of the fine art and antiques market to readers in the UK and around the world.
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Latest gem book launched by jewellery specialist Joanna Hardy
08 September 2021Jewellery specialist Joanna Hardy has completed her triology of gemstone books this month.
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Newark-minted ‘money of necessity’ at Dix Noonan Webb
06 September 2021Siege money or ‘money of necessity’ was minted in Newark in 1646 during the town’s third siege and the last year of the First English Civil War.
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Silver celebration of a treasured plant at Baldwin’s
06 September 2021Cyrene, founded by Greeks c.631BC in the uplands near present-day Shahhat in Libya, reached the height of its prosperity in the 5th century BC.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie’s pre-Culloden meal
06 September 2021On April 14, 1746, two days before the battle that would seal his fate, Charles Edward Stuart held a lavish meal at Culloden House, the highland estate owned by Hanoverian loyalist Duncan Forbes (1685-1747) that had recently been commandeered by Jacobite forces.
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One of the first coins struck in North America offered at Morton & Eden
06 September 2021A tin of coins and medals consigned to Morton & Eden’s autumn sale included a number of early pieces from the American colonial period.
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Insurance broker's remarkable Elizabethan rarities offered at St James’s Auctions
06 September 2021Starting his collection with a 1568 sixpence purchased in Swanage in 1957, marine insurance broker Christopher Comber (1944-2019) formed a remarkable collection of Elizabeth I coins.
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Charles I coin with ‘bare head’ bust emerges at Sovereign Rarities
06 September 2021The sale at Sovereign Rarities on September 21 includes this Charles I (1625-49), silver pattern unite (20 shillings) dated 1630.
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Quilt given warm reception
06 September 2021While 19th century American-made needlework quilts can often sell for substantial four and even five-figure sums, it is a rare that an English example brings as much as this one offered at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) on August 21.
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Clocks keep good time... and value
06 September 2021Stations, signal boxes and offices all depended on accurate timekeepers and just about every Victorian railway company commissioned clocks.
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Coins: Inside knowledge as major fair set to open this month
06 September 2021With Coinex set to be the first major indoor ‘antiques’ fair staged in London since March 2020, we take a look at the prestigious event plus auctions planned to coincide
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British coins abroad as outstanding examples emerge in overseas sales
06 September 2021Away from London, some exceptional coin sales coming up in Europe include a number of outstanding British issues.
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Dealer offers Celtic gold coin from 'very small issue'
06 September 2021Dealer Silbury Coins will bring to Coinex a group of Iron Age coins.
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Coin showing formidable Roman rival in his pomp offered at Roma Numismatics
06 September 2021Mithradates VI was ruler of the Hellenistic kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120-63BC and one of the Roman republic’s most formidable and determined opponents.
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George III ultra cameo coin comes to Harmers
06 September 2021Although an auction house since 1918, stamps specialist Harmers is a relative newcomer to the London numismatic sales.
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Clocks: the six factors that determine value in the clock market
30 August 2021Maker, movement, case decoration, provenance, rarity and original condition are the factors that combine to create value in the clock market. Here Richard Fox discusses some of the best examples recently sold at auction with the views of specialists at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams
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