Print issue 2385 (30 March 2019)
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News
- Early BADA 2019 sales augur well for London fair
- A £6800 judgment for Simeon Solomon drawing at Essex auction
- Two auction houses launch in London this spring
- LMS railway posters rescued from cellar prove ‘flavour of the month’ at Mallams
- Antiques Roadshow garage sale find brings $1.7m during New York Asia Week auctions
- Tunnard tops £444,000 Hertfordshire council collection auction at Cheffins
- German cathedral returns looted picture sold by state to Nazi heir in 1962
News Digest
- Pick of the week: The time to take a stand with vintage Rolex accessories
- One of the 57 varieties – the solid gold bean
- News in Brief - including a Nobel prize-winning economist setting a new record for any item sold in an online-only sale
- Bid Barometer
- Precious metals prices: issue 2385
Feature
- WINE AND WHISKY: Raise a glass to a buoyant market
- WINE AND WHISKY: Liquid gold ‘the smartest place to put your money’
- WINE AND WHISKY: Drinking the profits – a brief history of wine antiques
- WINE AND WHISKY: The right time to pull the cork
Auction Reports
- Pedestal steps up to new level
- Glass and ceramics greats star in saleroom
- Pub slot machine finds new home
- A superb selection of sentimental samplers
- Silver with rare Marks
- Bidders with lots of bottle tops
- ART MARKET: Ancient market a ‘thriving niche’
- ’Noble’ blind stamp fires bids for Old Master drawing
- A portrait with bonus – the sitter’s waistcoat
- Affordable art: Three works priced under £2000 in regional auctions including a mixed media and collage on card by John Maxwell
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Many mysteries solved and sold
- Players, poets, printers and pedallers
- A pharmacist’s passion for print
- British and Irish book auctions, March 26-April 6, 2019
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- NEC’s aristocratic credentials underlined
- How artist George Baxter made an impression
- Turn the spotlight on the the Gold Anchor period
- Please sir, it was the Eton boys
- A further history of dealing
- 5 Questions: dealer Sarah Delves
- The web shop window
- Portrait of an art dealer
International
- Bust stands proud in saleroom
- Big money emerges for Hamburg coin
- Padlocks secure high prices
- PREVIEW: Freiburg – Peege
- PREVIEW: Cologne - Auction Team Breker
- PREVIEW: Ohio - Treadway Gallery
- PREVIEW: Auckland - Art and Object
- PREVIEW: Vienna – Dorotheum
Auction Calendar
Glossary
Fairs & Markets
- Buzzing with 2000 stallholders
- Buttons from French fairs head to auction
- Jaguar ready for Derby days
- Midcentury Modern is ageing well
Classified
The Back Pages
- Trade and politicians out in force at BADA fair preview party
- Obituary – John Green
- Obituary – Martin Woolf Orskey
Adverts
Cover - Issue 2385