Print issue 2483 (13 March 2021)
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News
- Churchill enjoys finest hour in the saleroom
- Consultation launched for Portobello’s five-year plan
- Fairs make welcome return to calendar
- Police probe provenance of Meiji ivories
- Compton Verney in miniature after Grantchester bequest
- Budget grants as shops and centres reopen
- Bonhams to conduct sale of stock from Chinese art dealership Roger Keverne
- Founder of Decorative fair Patricia Harvey dies
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Chieftain’s fashion statement is all the rage 2000 years later
- Bid Barometer: issue 2483
- Missing barometer brought back to life
- Precious metals prices: issue 2483
- News in Brief – including the sale of 'Breadboard Annie's' kitchenalia collection
Special Report: Watches
- Value judgment: Interview with the new head of watches at Lyon & Turnbull
- Two electronic watches making three figures at auction
- Oysterdate Monte Carlo makes £8500 at Bonhams
- Taste of adventure: Omega ‘Red Racing Dial’ Speedmaster emerges at Sotheby's
- Longines ‘Tuna can’ timepiece sold at Gardiner Houlgate
- Rolex rolls on as a market favourite
- Prototype Explorer that aimed for peak perfection
- Grima and Omega – the About Time partnership
Auction Reports
- Furniture from across the centuries offers contrasting styles to bidders
- Table linked to ‘Diamond King and the King of Siam’
- Elkington Paradise found but not at silver price level
- ART MARKET: Birley moves past the formalilites
- Talmage catches bidders’ attention
- Beyond Beale to Bratby and Irish scenery
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Thomas Hardy under review
- From my good friend Baden-Powell
- Heroic price at 10 times top estimate
- British and Irish book auctions: March 9-24, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Dealer hails artist Hennell as a genius
- Cooper Events springs back into action
- William James joins the 'fifty' line-up at Richard Green
- 5 Questions: sculpture and works of art dealer Matthew Holder
- Trade tastes a virtual slice of the Big Apple
- The web shop window: Regency mahogany wine cooler
International
- ASIA WEEK NEW YORK: The gavel go-ahead
- Dealers take part in events from across the Atlantic
- Huanghuali hits the sale heights
- Loir on the beach
- Mirror from French designer Karl Lagerfeld's studio offered at Bonhams
- Choc full of treats at Hindman
- First edition of Philip Marlowe's debut book offered in Chigago
Fairs, Markets & Centres
Letters
- Yes, an ‘antiques council’ is exactly what the trade needs
- My early lessons in the tricks of the trade
- Poorly paid, hard work, but this ‘constantly changing museum’ was also a lot of fun
- Appel of my eye
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