Print issue 2394 (01 June 2019)
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News
- BADA logo row is put to the vote
- Antique weapons will be permitted in the post
- Bonhams expects record bid for Tompion’s miniature ‘Q Clock’
- Early typewriter pushes all the right buttons at German auction
- Da Qian is Woolley and Wallis’s 11th £1m-plus lot
- Call on antiques trade to oppose tariffs on Chinese antiques once again
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Gruesome way to jog your memory
- Bid Barometer
- £40,000 sleeper is Edo export survivor
- Precious metals prices: issue 2394
- News In Brief – including Chiswick Auctions' purchase of the office complex next-door
Auction Reports
- Furniture rolls back the years
- Pedestal tripod table finds place in the sun
- Early oak takes root in spring
- Exceptional farmhouse table brings excellent price
- Tiny stamp and banknote designs adopted far and wide
- In rust we trust for Marklin make
- Dutch dealer goes miniature for tableware and furniture
- ART MARKET: The elusive earlier John Frederick Lewis
- Elisabeth Frink maquette flies to five figures
- Henry Lamb portrait tops sale while German bronzes perform strongly
- Market-fresh rural scene from Norfolk sells at Keys' auction
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £800 including Rowland Hill Irish landscape
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Ortelius atlas with sea monsters off Iceland is popular feature of auction with global outlook
- Two salerooms make cards the real deal at top-deck levels
- British and Irish book auctions: May 28-June 8, 2019
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Bugatti anteater is highlight of London exhibition devoted to short-lived sculptor fascinated by zoos
- The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh offers late 'Sublime and the Beautiful' work by William McTaggart
- 5 Questions: Book dealer Deborah Coltham
- The web shop window: 19th century pill-making machine
- Make a racket purchase in a magical selection of antiques
- It’s the Penmans’ party time
- Decorative art dealer Oscar Graf opens a London gallery
Feature
- Tribal art market expands beyond its traditional selling boundaries
- Illustrious former owners boost modern value at New York tribal art auctions
- A selection of dates for your tribal diary: May-October 2019
- Well-known private collection of African art comes up in Sotheby’s Paris auction
- Third slice of pre-Columbian works on offer at Drouot
- On the ball for tribal items coming up in west London sale
Fairs & Markets
- Ephemera Society fair: Short-lived objects with real long-term demand
- Three So Last Century fairs – and another to come
- Antiques centres updates: news from three businesses
- A great hall in west Somerset for varied events
Letters
- ATG letter: BADA logo – image problem and solutions
- Would you say Grandfather Clock?
- Football bribery back in 1904
- The Lady Chatterley's defence loved this prosecutor
- Pepys ‘heir’ was a nephew
- Meanwhile in the canine world…
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