Print issue 2480 (20 February 2021)
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News
- Coins and medals ‘up 15-20%’ during £53m year for London’s salerooms
- EU proposes ban on import and export of antique ivory
- Three new faces join Forum as firm builds on record year
- Second jug from Ealing Martinware theft returned
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Pondicherry carpet saved from the ashes of Ossian’s Hall
- Bid Barometer: issue 2480
- Shankly inspiration at Liverpool FC sale
- Precious metals prices: issue 2480
- News In Brief – including the postponement of two IACF fairs
Feature
- COINS AND MEDALS: Virtual trade leads to 'renaissance' in lockdown
- Detecting an Iron Age record
- Air Vice-Marshal's medal group flies high at Spink
- Landmark Islamic gold dinar sold at Morton and Eden
- Welcoming the Ides of March
- Coin from the reign of Catuvellauni leader Agr sold at Timeline
- Harmers cashes in on the Regency golden age
- Elizabeth I sovereign among highlights of Comber collection sold at Baldwin’s of St James’s
- Victoria Cross group belonging to ‘Australian’ hero of Inkerman among DMW's annual highlights
- An Indian Mutiny double Morton & Eden
- Twelfth century coin dug up by metal detectorist sells at £14,000
- Monarchs conjoined on a rare coin
- Spink's sale of Stratos collection led by Queen Anne five guineas piece
- Silver penny that rewrote Mercian history makes £32,000 at auction
- British token record set at Dix Noonan Webb
Auction Reports
- Chinese works of art: a here-to-sell strategy
- Estate of Turpin Antiques dealer stands up and delivers
- Gainsborough chair is sitting pretty at Locke & England auction
- ‘Signature’ Stobwasser snuff box at £11,000
- Monk and satyr both answer prayers of vendors
- ART MARKET: Knight might and awesome foursome
- Beryl Cook market boost: highest auction price for 12 years
- Cooper Henderson: years of coaching pay off
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Miniature powers up to £1.2m
- Holy order at £25,000
- Pioneering sea atlas sails to a new high
- Peanuts: early days unveiled at Heritage Auctions
- Early coloured print of Melbourne under the hammer
- British and Irish book auctions: February 16-28, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Piste off? Get an art fix instead
- Maas makes a move from Mayfair to St James’s
- Shapero Rare Books launches Islamic department
- Wynn Cato on the way to Cheltenham
- 5 Questions: Old Master and British art dealer Lawrence Steigrad
- Barbara Jones sketchbook offered at Firsts online winter edition
- Nonesuch Gallery discovers Goldstein 'Moses' painting
International
- Old Masters star in first flurry of French auctions
- Cluny Museum moves in to buy knightly ornament at auction
- Major Deco names make big prices in Paris
- Sevres jug and basin for ‘Mylord Bolingbroke’
- Edouard Manet dog portrait emerges at Paris sale
- Olympic torch could burn bright in Brittany
- Les Hymnes sing out in the Barbier-Muller collection
Letters
- Memories of saleroom life as a lowly porter…
- An antiques dealer besotted by Black Forest bear
- Abolishing ARR is a must
- Magna Carta medal puzzler
- Brexit makes single trade body a vital step
- Time to ask the members for their opinions
- Proper debate on merger is needed
- We are creating auction catalogues database
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