Print issue 2479 (13 February 2021)
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News
- Dealer portal takes over 70-year-old Chelsea fair
- Row breaks out over artist model’s estate sale
- $7.8m gold coin auction record for fabled Brasher dubloon
- ‘A great connoisseur of art’ – Richard L Feigen (1930-2021)
- ‘Time has come to act’ on merger of two antiques trade associations
- Globe theft as London smash and grab raids continue
- Christie’s to conduct sale for Brighton stalwart Moorhead
News Digest
- Pick of the week: So what am I bid for my great-great aunt?
- Bid Barometer: issue 2479
- Lady Mountbatten collection up for sale at Sotheby's
- Precious metals prices: issue 2479
- News In Brief – including the Olympia summer fair cancelled
Auction Reports
- No public view? No worries…
- ‘Textbook’ vernacular furniture
- Fountain pens: How the East and West signed up to a lucrative deal
- Medal marks Cromwell triumph
- True blue: Hokusai uncovered
- More Collingwood microgauze emerges
- ART MARKET: Bidders hope to hook a Guercino
- Watercolour showing rail reaching the Highlands sold to local community
- French tree blooms in saleroom
- Poignant pictures by doomed polar explorer
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Work that brought colour to life
- Cottam on to a super collection
- Result that was fine and Dandy
- Bidders savour Edmund Spenser works in beautiful bindings
- British and Irish book auctions: February 9-19, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Dealer's latest show focuses on Henry Lamb's bucolic view of life
- Tribal Art London reports increased numbers of online visitors
- 5 Questions: Oriental carpets dealer Clive Rogers
- The web shop window: Graeco-Egyptian gem mounted in a gold ring
- Decorative fair teams up with Bonhams for 350-lot auction
- Soft-paste porcelain showcase at Kensington Church Street dealer goes virtual
- Virtual Mayfair event 'more accessible' but lacks 'buzz of a well-attended event'
International
- Group of Wiener Werkstatte silverware shines alongside Knox and luxury liner relic
- Doll and Deco bottle soar above estimates
- London laid out across four panels
- Coley joins Hindman
- Marquet doubles up as oils sell separately at auction within 24 hours
- La Maison Moderne poster among top Art Nouveau offerings at Swann
- Napoleon III decanters and glasses offered in Florida
- Art Deco biscuit barrel emerges in Maine
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Pocket watches demand rockets
- Malthouse Collective in Stroud brewing up ideas to keep busy
- 'I know customers will be back' says antiques centre owner
- Holt has high hopes for May or June
Letters
- Trade associations must be inclusive and streamlined
- An artist’s royalty payment is nothing like a musician’s
Backpage
- Obituary: Peter Kay 1935-2021
- Obituary: James O’Connor 1930-2021
- Obituary: Richard L Feigen 1930-2021
- Obituary: Richard Day
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