Print issue 2339 (28 April 2018)
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News
- LAPADA boss exits after just three months
- Spink specialist takes role as Lord Ashcroft’s medals curator
- Online market expects competitive year with growth at 12%
- Chinese jades targeted in Bath museum theft
- New York trade takes state’s ivory ban to court
- North Mymms contents sale tops £1.75m and posts best-ever sale for Sworders
- Restituted Cranach shines in New York
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: South Indian rarity spotted alongside Soloman stars
- Bid barometer
- Charles Voysey River Rug flows into auction
- News In Brief - including the appointment of a new chair for Asian Art in London
Feature
- Louis Osman the man of the moon
- Kutchinsky colour shines through
- Photogenic gems including Julia Margaret Cameron link
- A taste of cool Britannia in NYC
- Naming names, Scandinavian style
- Jewellery hammer highlights including Chaumet brooch in Shropshire
Auction Reports
- Furniture provides market comfort in and outside London
- Postcards revealing all aspects of Jewish life
- French automaton musical bird hits the right notes
- Market with buyers happy to splash cash
- Walnut chest wows at £5500
- ART MARKET: Search is on for new Mod Brit stars
- Carrington shows her touch of tinsel
- Broken pram works very well for ‘Braaq’
- Portrait sitter at 111 years old
- Saleroom selection: Three works at regional salerooms below £500 including pictures by Sudbury artist Paul Earee
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: From Dickens to a dodgy bishop
- Word on the street is of a Ravilious ‘record’
- British birds and natural history fly high in New York
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Dealership devoted to tuneful mechanical items that please ‘the eye, the touch and the ear’
- ‘Chinaman’ rarity dances into Harrogate
- Shop talk – Antiques at Heritage
- 5 Questions: Alexia Amato
- Tomassos take contemporary focus
- Art Deco and Art Nouveau hold steady at Antiques for Everyone despite ivory trade ban
International
- Multiple faces of the pastel portrait
- John Schaeffer sale in Sydney
- Chicago sale casts its spell
- Peintures Bordelaises dedicated sale in Bordeaux
- Costume sale suits Pennsylvania auction house
Auction Calendar
Fairs & Markets
- The background to a glass act: how Knebworth and Solihull fairs emerged
- Buyers dip into the modern movement at south London lido
- Reclamation for dummies and a market winning idea
- Get into a great Tis in Wilts
- Go with the grain (and cheese) for vintage market in Somerset
Obituaries
- David R Russell, the tool collector extraordinaire
- Antique lace and textiles specialist Betty Mendes
- Textile designer Elizabeth Joan Gibbons
Letters
- Potential consequences of the ivory ban – for museums
- We need class action on ivory
- No compensation after ivory ban comes into effect
- Fruitful questions on whereabouts of rare Troika
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