Print issue 2336 (07 April 2018)

News

• Title concerns as Ferreira map collection sells
• Gandolfi rediscovery sets house record in Leominster
• UK buyer wins as €1.8m Meynier resurfaces
• Diversity push launched as BBC’s Bargain Hunt is given another two years
• DEFRA spokesman says expect response to ivory consultation ‘shortly’

News Digest

• Pick of the Week: Here comes the sundial at Summers Place
• Bid barometer
• Feel the force of Darth Vader demand
• New In Brief - including sale of Saudi billionaire's bronze sculptures at Bonhams

Auction Reports

• All hail the studio pottery market
• Clear demand for black and white classic John Ward
• Plainer studio pottery styles attract their own faithful following
• Petrol pump globe lamp at £5000? That’s the spirit
• Poor passenger pigeon finds a new nest
• Caddy makes a return to the Netherlands
• Selwood springs up in Surrey sale
• ART MARKET: Watercolours worked up into saleroom success
• Bidders board the Farnham omnibus
• Why a sea view costs extra
• Saleroom selection: Three works at Woolley & Wallis below £1500
• BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Jeffrey Archer political cartoon collection sells at auction
• Fancy lot turns out nice again
• Einstein and Beethoven in tune with bidding tastes

Previews

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Dealers’ Diary

• BADA fair: play the long game as visitors take a more considered approach
• British artist Alan Davie is back in the spotlight
• Panter & Hall stage Alberto Morrocco show
• 5 Questions: Guy Peppiatt
• Beryl Cook cat in Cotswolds
• The late, late show at TEFAF

International

• Huge photograph archive of luxury transatlantic liner Normandie heads to Paris auction
• Domenico Tintoretto's 'Supper at Emmaus' emerges in Madrid
• James Bond 'Thunderball' poster resurfaces in Texas
• Rare copy of Thomas Paine's 'The American Crisis' offered at Swann New York

Auction Calendar

• Saleroom hopes outsiders are in auction demand
• British and Irish book auctions: April 4-27, 2018

Fairs & Markets

• Firm foundations: IACF’s operations director describes the value of experience in the organising world
• Mount your own Everest ascent
• Bengal and Bauer both on sale at the textiles fair
• Antiques fair and fleamarket are part of a 500-year-old tradition at Norwich's St Andrews Hall
• Grandma’s Attic has plenty in store

Letters to the editor

• 3B or not 3B (or possibly 4B), that is the question
• Our sales spike during events

The Back Page

• Soapbox: Does promoting the age of your auction house enhance its brand?

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