Print issue 2487 (10 April 2021)
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News
- $1.9m record for British coin set in Dallas
- London print fair morphs into Print Week
- Top Dutch trade launch online fair
- Auctioneer Lee Young leaves Duke’s and buys local Somerset saleroom
News Digest
- Pick of the week: The 'earliest known portrait of an African in Persian art’
- Bid Barometer: issue 2487
- Cold courage comes into play for Victoria Cross from First World War
- Precious metals prices: issue 2487
- News in Brief – including the ABA appointing a new president
Feature
- ENTERTAINMENT MEMORABILIA: Cover stories
- Sex Pistols and Rolling Stones poster successes
- Bowie unreleased and unheard
- Hat that fell to Earth and a Strange tale about a suit
- Radiohead demo cassette evokes that Friday feeling
- Rock ‘n’ not just a roll
- Aunt Mimi on behalf of John Lennon
- Stars came out for Grand occasion
- Where eagles roost conceptually
- The full home cinema experience
- Galaxy of film production roles in a long career
- Hound kept in garage
- Wow – Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel early days
Auction Reports
- Gloucestershire auction offers far from your normal antiques and collectables line-up
- Rare Swansea porcelain all white to buy
- ART MARKET: Who said suburban life was dull?
- Artists uncertain but appeal clear to bidders
- Venus copies old and new
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Inspired by Sir Walter Scott
- Battle mags and Dr Who go into action
- Another Agatha Christie record
- British and Irish book auctions: April 6-17, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
International
- Maria van Oosterwyck still life brings major international bidding in France
- Symbol of love and faithfulness bid to seven-times estimate
- Famous females rejected by one empress, given as gift by another
- Philosopher painting rated as a rediscovered Fragonard
- Toby jugs based on First World War top brass raise heads in US auction
- Tazza with baronial background offered in Lisbon
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Antiques centre in revitalised former granary battles through to April reopening
- Affordable Art Fair: events at cities worldwide to come but it’s online for now
- Fair powers on at the museum
- Flea London to reopen with 27 stalls on April 17
Letters
- Live bidding at Dreweatt Neate was not key moment
- Confined to a desk? VC captain was captured
- Ivory – don’t forget collector expertise
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