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News
- Kempton antiques market heads return of keynote fairs
- Dod Procter's high brow oil takes £26,500 in Cornwall art auction
- Allow access to antiquities files, says Christie’s
- How trading life looks after lockdown
- Silver dealer in Portobello Road Market dispute over access to stock
- Qing opulence crowns Drouot’s €1.95m return
- Reticulated rediscovery coming to Hong Kong auction
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Meet the fakir who likes his sheep raw
- Bid Barometer: issue 2448
- Inscribed first edition of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone makes £100,000
- Precious metals prices: issue 2448
- News In Brief - including the sale of a letter from Van Gogh and Gauguin
Feature
- Militaria: Bismarck’s visor cap leads auction selection of military uniforms
- The other evacuation at the time of Dunkirk
- Medal awarded to Victorian soldier wounded at Rorke’s Drift sells to doctor at auction
- American collector secures original Second World War RAF ensign flag
- Bidding contest for Nelson letter from HMS Victory and medal group from Battle of the Nile
- Painting of Battle of the Nile veteran’s fundraiser emerges at Charles Miller
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Dealer Katz defined and refined
- David Bomberg coverage takes in Tower Bridge and Jerusalem
- Phoenix rises high amid a flurry of bidding
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: JK Rowling's children's classic dumped in a skip, now £33,000
- Travel account of early US sells for many times estimate
- British voyages and Bob Dyland star at Sotheby's
- British and Irish book auctions: June 23-July 4, 2020
Collector Interview
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- London Art Week gets intimate after lockdown
- 5 Questions: Simon Beattie
- The web shop window: Coalport porcelain clock
- Tribal focus on the trade and travel impact
- Hepworth and Moore united in exhibition
International
- Portrait of ‘the father of couture’ leads New York auction of 19th century and Old Master works
- US saleroom Skinner reports record participation
- Tomahawk tempts a buyer at $540,000
- On the scent of Stourbridge bottles
- George III epergne offered at Case Antiques
- Georg Jensen brooch offered at Philadelphia auction
- Empire style comport comes to Roland Auctions
- Portrait of star athlete killed in the Great War emerges at Maine sale
- Musical box bird makes appearance
- Get your claws into a dragon bowl
Letters
The Back Page
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