Print issue 2464 (24 October 2020)
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News
- Shakespeare first folio sells for record $8.4m
- Trade threatened by £100m anti money laundering levy
- New anti money laundering cost to the art trade 'entirely inappropriate'
- Copy of ‘the earliest obtainable map printed in Arabic’ reaches 15-times estimate at Forum Auctions
- Venetian abbey buys northern Renaissance devotional oil
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Replica great auk is real winner at auction
- Bid Barometer: issue 2464
- Persian tomb-marker tile takes £80,000
- Precious metals prices: issue 2464
- News in Brief – including a group of glazed tiles from Uzbekistan being seized at Heathrow
Feature
- TRAVEL MEMORABILIA: Bradshaw railway guides remain an affordable route into the collecting market
- Two wheels v four legs
- Bradshaw off the mark as a mapmaker
- Top idea for a hat carrier
- Ingenious design for travelling chalice
- Dealer hails ‘exceptional’ campaign chest
- Dealer offers forerunner of the modern sofa bed
- Soviet travel posters included in Surrey auction
- William Russell Flint railway poster for Bamburgh emerges at Onslows
- Promotion poster pre-Titanic tragedy comes to Wiltshire sale
- Antikbar offers best of British
- Art Deco poster rides into Edinburgh auction
- Louis Vuitton trunk made to aid the war effort offered in Munich
- Oxfordshire dealership sources Louis Vuitton trunk with the famous canvas pattern
- Mobile wardrobe brings demand in Norfolk
- All you need for a civilised packed lunch
Auction Reports
- Single-owner collection ‘represents something of a return to form’ for the Spode market
- Buyer has a new home at £2200
- Medal saluting bravery of ‘Colored Troops’ sells in Salisbury
- Textbook longcase created by one of London’s finest makers
- Urns and mug make big earners
- Bidders shell out for sign and a noted beauty
- What a relief: Italian surprises emerge at Mallams' auction
- ART MARKET: Venetian works by ‘follower of’ Canaletto make big sums in their own right
- Humbert Craig’s Irish outlook brings benefit to Locke and England
- Portuguese works pop into Chichester saleroom
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1700 including a Sylvia Gosse street scene
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Logical work proves popular
- Bountiful bibliophile works bring demand at Sotheby's
- British and Irish book auctions: October 20-November 8, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- New Orleans gallery covers a timeline history of clocks
- The moon rises at Colnaghi exhibition
- Dealerships awarded freedom of the digital city
- 5 Questions: Monica Cardarelli of Laocoon Gallery
- Female artists under London Art Week spotlight
- It moss be love: naturalist’s album bought by museum
- The web shop window: coloured wax portrait of a famous actress
International
- Modern Vietnamese works reflect historical links to former French Indochina colony
- Old Master oils: vive la différence
- Dinet’s school of thought offered in Vannes
- Pre-emptions: stepping in at the fall of the gavel
- Actress portrayed in pastel
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Former Red Cross centre empty for years becomes antiques hub in booming Suffolk town
- Woodbridge Antiques Centre boosted online
- Handle wares the old-school way in Suffolk
Letters
- Great buy if you happen to be a tool nut
- It will never happen on my watch
- Dealer: I’m well known, not popular…
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