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21 August 2017

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

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Hiroshige Japanese woodblock show hot on the heels of Hokusai

21 August 2017

A month after the British Museum’s hugely popular Hokusai exhibition in London finished, another Japanese master of the woodblock print is on show at a New York gallery.

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A Lawyer Writes: When does sold really mean sold?

21 August 2017

A lawsuit filed against Christie’s highlights the legal questions over when the legal title of a work transfers, writes Milton Silverman.

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Heavyweight bids for a weight saving brooch

21 August 2017

Medals and orders can be heavy things. So what better way to carry around your various hard-earned gongs than a one-size-fits-all miniature version of them all?

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Bidding to go behind enemy lines

21 August 2017

Operations behind enemy lines was the theme linking two special forces medals groups sold by London auction house Spink (20% buyer’s premium) on July 26.

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21 August 2017

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

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High praise given to palace Deco delight

21 August 2017

So enamoured was Deco dealer Bill Jones of Style 1900 with the biannual Art Deco fairs held in the Great Hall at Eltham Palace in south London that he started his own: in Norfolk and East Sussex.

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ATG Letter: Show does little for industry’s credibility

21 August 2017

MADAM – I’m glad ATG enjoys the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? programme so much to give it front page coverage plus a double-page spread in ATG No 2304.

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Marchant holds sale during New York Asia Week

21 August 2017

London dealership Marchant is to sell Chinese artworks at a dedicated auction in New York.

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A Rorke’s Drift in pricing for the Zulu War

21 August 2017

Considering there were only 150 men defending Rorke’s Drift against the Zulus, an impressive number of medals awarded after that epic 1879 encounter have come to auction recently.

Plans unveiled for Chiswick in South Ken

21 August 2017

Chiswick Auctions is to open its South Kensington showroom manned by a group of former Christie’s staff early next month.

Bid Barometer – issue 2305

21 August 2017

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period August 10-17, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

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21 August 2017

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

Meet the trade support system

21 August 2017

Working as a dealer can mean long, solitary hours but it can also be a collaborative pursuit. Here, ATG highlights the work of three from around that trade whose work brings them into regular contact with the wonderful world of art and antiques dealers. Our spotlight falls on a marketer, artist and photographer who are the ‘added extras’.

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Shop talk - Regent Antiques

21 August 2017

In our continuing series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops, ATG talks to Tino Quaradeghini, who opened Regent Antiques in 1980.

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Fundraiser brews for malthouse

21 August 2017

The popular annual Antiques in the Street event held in the market town of Ashbourne is being revived and will support restoration of an 18th century building.

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Pick of the Week: Breaking news of a Jacobite rarity

21 August 2017

The highlight of Lyon & Turnbull’s sale of Scottish Silver & Applied Arts on August 16 was a Jacobite drinking glass with a difference.

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A sweetheart brooch to give you wings

21 August 2017

In the days when loved ones in the armed forces would head abroad on service for up to several years, not knowing when or if they would return, ‘sweetheart’ brooches were a way of remembering them.

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Sextant at Maine auction signals shipwreck rescue story

21 August 2017

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries of Maine is holding its annual summer sale, a three-day offering of more than 1500 lots covering a huge variety of different categories.

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Auction house of the rising sun

21 August 2017

The British Museum’s big summer exhibition on Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai is over, but more art from the Land of the Rising Sun is in the offing (also see International Events, ATG No 2305).

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