Print issue 2427 (01 February 2020)
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News
- Stunning hoard of sealed bottles dug up on a building site could fetch £20,000
- Diamonds switched for paste at auction view
- Modified Irish seal salver brings £9200 in Exeter sale
- Rare Mughal coin spotted hanging on a bracelet sells for £248,000
- Lowry ‘rediscovered’ in US tops Mod Brit showpiece
- Antique arms fair moves from Olympia to Hammersmith
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Rusty Scottish Highland sword makes £30,000
- Bid Barometer: issue 2427
- Queen Victoria's garments bought by Historic Royal Palaces at Hansons
- Precious metals prices: issue 2427
- News In Brief – including TEFAF president stepping down
Feature
- JEWELLERY, WATCHES AND OBJETS D’ART: Cartier desk clock collection at Bonhams shows evolution of design
- Rare example of chameleon stone alexandrite sells at Skinner
- Paolo Spalla pebble rings find buyers in Newbury
- Cufflinks with the royal cypher draw bidders at Lawrences
- Textbook Lalique choker makes €150,000 in Paris auction
- Submariners surface for sale in Surrey and Birmingham
- Seamaster rises to a £25,000 bid in Nottingham
- Archaeological revival bracelet attracts bidders in Chichester
- Charmed by Spetchley Park: rock crystal pendant soars to 70-times estimate at Sotheby's
- Four cameo and intaglio rings indicating glyphic art is now at the cutting edge of fashion
- Jewels from the studio: new auction format for New Jersey saleroom
- Byronic collection offered at Chiswick Auctions
Auction Reports
- Expanding dining table, candelabra and Chinese export cabinets lead a fine start in Salisbury
- Private buyers snap up collectables at Woolley & Wallis
- Royal history behind the £99,000 candelabra
- ART MARKET: Sporting art collectors take to the field again
- Tennants go under starter’s orders for a new sporting art sale
- Dead pheasant study attributed to Turner draws interest at Perth auction house
- The dog found in an attic: Charterhouse sells Maud Earl painting
- Affordable art: Three works sold for £1500 or under including a John Cyril Harrison watercolour
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: A 17th century baffle of the sexes
- Turned out ice again: souvenir of a frozen Thames
- Rare copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first book sells at Bonhams
- Virgil’s work becomes a Scottish literature classic
- British and Irish book auctions: January 28-February 13, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Exhibition at London gallery showcases the free spirit of artist André Derain
- The web shop window: Viktoria Gorynska self portrait
- Career of Fred Yates in full focus at Mayfair show
- 5 Questions: Tom Lintern-Mole
International
- Italian sculptor's marble Cleopatra appears in North Carolina
- Whitby working life in focus at Swann sale
- Antique picture frames given prominence in Paris
- George Tinworth plaque stages a Shakespeare show in terracotta
- Kangaroo chair is from Chandigarh project offered in Munich
- Moigniez bronze bird flies into German auction
Fairs & Markets
- Organiser Bentleys Fairs holds another 1920s themed event in Brighton
- Mountie up for the 10-day Paris fair
- Sheffield fleamarket thrives on extra buzz
- Pop Up Vintage Fairs launch new Islington event
- Rose & Brown back in town
- Hemswell Antique Centres in Lincolnshire gives its dealers a helping hand to go digital
Letters & Backpage
- Postage and packing costs – responses
- Royal rarities become even rarer
- South not north of the West Country
- Obituary: Porcelain dealer Wouter van Halm (1946-2019)
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