Print issue 2504 (14 August 2021)
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News
- Wassail bowl sets record for Ewenny slipware as Sir Kyffin hits new high at Welsh auction
- Christie’s plan for permanent Hong Kong site
- Eugene Boudin painting sparks ownership mystery
- Dealer selling platform 2Covet expands team
News Digest
- Pick of the week: ‘Union Jack’ cup flags up Worcester
- Bid Barometer: issue 2504
- Snowy Swiss valley gets a warm sale welcome
- Precious metals prices: issue 2504
- News In Brief – including news of a UK restorer facing an antiquities investigation
Feature
- MEDALS AND MILITARIA: Victoria Cross sets army auction record
- Lover and a fighter: Battle of Britain ace Peter Townsend
- Anthony Eden's military medals sold in Salisbury auction
- Remarkable record of three very collectable regiments
- Hero esteemed as Nelson’s gallant protege and friend
- Clock salvaged from German ship scuttled at Scapa Flow re-emerges at Sherborne auction
- Catherine Southon sells telegraph message saying 'we sank the Bismarck'
- Relic from an airship disaster offered at Spicers
- Illustrator Ronald Searle's sketches produced in Japanese POW camp sold as part of archive at Tennants
- ʻDead Man’s Penny’ awarded to female recipients
- Relics reveal a distinguished military family
- The ‘Tubby’ pilot who flew 100 operational sorties
- Silver salver gift to ‘Johnnie’ Johnson
Auction Reports
- Antique furniture: Quality counts if condition is poor
- Drury bronzes and a devilish buy at Dreweatts
- Mortlake tapestry leads the way
- ART MARKET: Are Old Masters suffering from long Covid?
- Portrait of a Grand Tourist turns heads at Bonhams
- Hoffmann hare inspired by Durer leaps to £1.02m
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Rare copy of pioneering black poet Phillis Wheatley's work makes £16,500 at Cotswolds auction
- Signal book of naval ships brings bidders to Shrewsbury sale
- Battered copy of Encyclopedia Britannia 'damaged at Trafalgar' sells at Charles Miller
- Declaration of Independence announcement and leaf from the Gutenberg Bible make six-figure sums at Heritage Auctions
- British and Irish book auctions: August 10-28, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Abstract art associated with St Ives forms the debut show at relaunched Cotswolds gallery
- Life of a saint comes up at TEFAF Online in September
- Baroque chess set bought at TEFAF unveiled at Polish museum
- The web shop window: William and Mary escritoire
- 5 Questions: Oxfordshire dealer Richard Whittle
- New catalogues: a selection of dealer highlights for summer 2021
- Opportunity is aim of the game at The Game Fair
International
- Belgian buyers out in force as dealer's collection comes up for sale
- Slashed and rejected canvas now worth €120,000
- Warhol flowers bloom in German saleroom
- Pocket globes point to Bavarian event
- Carpet weaves Genovese families link
- El Divino painting draws international bidders and sells 60-times over estimate in Stuttgart sale
- Timekeepers from two centuries apart sell in Vienna auction
- Meissen plaque catches the eye after being offered without reserve
- Ernst Nay's abstract painting is top result at Munich auction
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Venue switch due to Brighton Racecourse's vaccination role
- Book fair makes a Brighton booking
- New owners hoping for sunshine at Chelsea Antiques Fair
- B2B Edinburgh postponed due to 'too much uncertainty'
- Beccles event full to the brim
Letters
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