Print issue 2415 (02 November 2019)
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News
- Cedric Morris market in full bloom as Sworders set auction record
- BADA chief Forgione steps down to head trade body
- Sworders makes two senior hires
- Charlotte Brontë’s teenage miniature manuscript returns to auction
- Linthorpe pottery enters new price territory
- Record total for Orientalist auction as single-owner collection raises £ 33.5m at Sotheby’s
News Digest
- Pick of the week: No.1 microscope proves it’s still the best
- Bid Barometer
- Bayonets sale that gets to the point
- Precious metals prices: issue 2415
- News In Brief – including a French auction house opening an office in Morocco
Medals & Militaria
- Broadened horizons in medal collecting
- Extra award marks ‘Forlorn Hope’ bravery
- Wheelbarrow fells Waterloo hero
- Missing in action but spotted shooting at a bottle of schnapps
- Silver tureen salutes captain’s fighting spirit
- Great War mascot fits the Bill
- Regimental badge is a cut above
- Poignant plaque for Women’s RAF
- Shako of sadness emerges at Tunbridge Wells sale
- Using your head to avoid incoming fire
- Bicorne bidder from the US
- RAF helmet soars above estimate
- Fan adulation for naval hero Nelson
- Hands of history for Nelson memorabilia collectors
Auction Reports
- Timely look at the clocks market
- Powell stained glass panels shine in sale
- Pankhurst’s angelic skills as tea service brings demand
- Celtic medal to club legend sells in Glasgow
- Music box tunes in at 20-times guide
- Post rarity delivers a £24,000 result
- Austin pedal car trundles into Cheshire saleroom
- ART MARKET: The sound result of the suburbs
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including a Peter Blake fictitious wrestler work
- Tudor manor houses artistic gems from across the centuries
- Apollo heads over to Staffs saleroom
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Letters reveal a time of turmoil
- Dickens first survives as an auction rarity
- Gauntlet thrown down for last time but not accepted
- British and Irish book auctions: October 29-November 8, 2019
Books feature
- Dealer interview: Quaritch’s specialists on a moving market
- Chelsea book fair previews – including Arthur Conan Doyle first edition
- Book collector interview: Social history of the printed word
Book auction previews
- Bank account: the earliest days in Britain
- William Nicholson’s 'Alphabet' in San Francisco sale
- EH Shepard pictures Bertie
- Modern First Editions sale goes Greene
- Setting out the laws of cricket at Knights Sporting Auctions
- Bastille lot with English connection
- The Bentley story at Transport Collector Auctions
- First issue of James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' in Chicago sale
- American map discoveries in Scotland
- Pilot’s ups and downs as Adolphe Pegoud collectables offered at auction
- 18th century floral frills at Sotheby’s
- Woodcut wonder at Munich auction
- Famous fables at Christie's sale of French family library
- Nineteenth century views of Constantinople at Chiswick Auctions
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2500
- Previews: £2501 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £20,000
- Previews: £20,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Go for a close shave at Olympia
- Take the chair in Harrogate
- William Scott reintroduced to the US
- 5 Questions: Henry Miller of Miller Fine Art
- The web shop window: Caucasian runner from Legge Antique Carpets
- Tiffany designer Angela Cummings jewellery showcase
International Previews
- Major-name attractions in Paris as works by Artemesia Gentileschi and Jean-Baptiste Corot emerge at auction
- Pissarro rediscovered and up at Paris auction
- Head of a saint in Munich sale
- Pistol sets a new standard for French army and navy use
- Stuck sculpture shows athletic inspiration
- Vroom shows a sense of perspective
- Greek doves inspire Romans
- Irish silver is the Maine attraction
- Panels portray palaces and architectural scenes
Fairs & Markets
- Bristol photo fair begins life
- Organisers plan Himley Hall fair expansion
- Antiques centre earns high praise
- Tribute to a local hero
- Luring the Millennials – and younger
- Brighton Love Fairs dealer focus: Warren Wilkinson
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