Print issue 2392 (18 May 2019)
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News
- Getty Museum snaps up ancient gems cache at Christie’s New York
- Leadership changes across the Penman Fairs portfolio
- Government consultation ahead of new anti-money laundering laws
- A First Folio at Firsts as book fairs pack early June
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Figurehead full of canine quality points way to £52,000 result at Charles Miller auction
- Bid Barometer
- Precious metals prices: issue 2392
- Classic special forces beret brings a very special price
- News In Brief – including Sotheby’s recruiting a spirits specialist
Feature
- ANTIQUITIES: Single-owner collection of cameos and intaglios in New York proved the highlight of ‘Classic Week’
- Bust depicts a short-lived Roman emperor Didius Julianus
- Mars intaglio makes a multi-estimate sum at Salisbury sale
- Fragment from Roman period sarcophagus – an example of very early recycling
- Gold 'pyxis' trinket box emerges at London auction
- Roman sports mask with shades of Quietus comes to TimeLine Auctions
Auction Reports
- Salerooms aim to create a home from home when dispersing traditional country house contents
- Advertising lots catch the eye at auctions
- ART MARKET: Family portraits in Irish auction include one of a would-be aviation trailblazer Godwin Swifte
- Standards fly high in New York Old Master sales
- Sidney Nolan work found in a cupboard
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1001 including an oil by Paul Gauguin's son
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Pioneering 16th century French work dances its way to a five-figure auction result
- Le Corbusier designs a tour de force
- Frankenstein meets the sleepwalker
- New World music making at Swann's Americana sale
- British and Irish book auctions: May 14-25, 2019
Previews
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- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- New drawings fair shows its sense of style
- Get the visual low-down on Ludlow
- The web shop window: rare poster by Edward Bawden
- Rembrandt stands out at print event
- Tragic topics in text and images at The Arts Club show
- 5 Questions: Dr Ivan Bonchev of Pax Romana
International
- Barbara Hepworth's 'Aegean' bronze heads to Chicago auction
- Brandt Art Deco table on offer in LA
- Minton rarities emerge in Indiana
- Micromosaic panels in two US auctions
- Amphora decorated by the 'Princeton Painter'
- Changing faces of the tinplate toy world
- French advertising poster for Terrot bicycles to be offered at Potter and Potter
- Black Watch toy soldiers march into Pittsburgh auction
- Artefacts collected during extensive Indian travels for sale
Fairs & Markets
- Fair organiser Matthew Adams celebrates a special birth
- Vintage rugs brought from Belgium to Bath fair
- Two brocantes coming up in Rutland and Suffolk
Letters & Obituaries
- Background story to the Canning Jewel auction
- Auctioneers are short-sighted when refusing to accept credit cards
- Why Penny Farthing is the wheel deal when it comes to practicality
- Obituary: Doulton art pottery collector Derek Billings
- Obituary: Metal conservator Peter ‘Mick’ Willet
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