Print issue 2605 (19 August 2023)
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News
- IACF returns to Stoneleigh with a new biannual fair
- Summer scorchers: Trio of big prices blows away August cobwebs
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Bear essential of the pot lid field
- Bare essential of early photography field
- News in brief including a rare Edward VIII halfcrown coming to auction
- Bid Barometer: issue 2605
- Precious metals prices: issue 2605
Auction Reports
- Milk jug made for William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey comes to auction
- Liner launcher mallet exempted from ivory trade ban
- Plaquette pays tribute to – or mocks – speaker Lenthall
- Georgian tea silver warms up the bidding
- Cheap cape but £21,000 for in demand Star Wars Jawa figure
- Cypriot ‘plank’ figure sets a mystery
- Nidhogg nestles in Yggdrasil: a Viking bronze die for armour
- Heal's garden seat was fashioned from Churchill’s yacht
- ART MARKET: Old Master sales in London bring good and bad news
- Aristocratic consignments make a comeback in Old Master auctions
- Cat conveys a sense of calm and domestic comfort
Books & Works On Paper
- Tutankhamen pharaoh tomb find detailed in three volumes
- Oscar Wilde letter ponders inverted commas
- Playing card games with a new Surrealist face
- Postcard flies into postal history with first airmail
- Early Commando comics stir the blood of collectors
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, August 15-September 11, 2023
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Gallery run by ex-Christie’s expert holds show focusing on the ‘first US Modernist’
- The web shop window: 'mystery' centre table at Lorfords
- 5 Questions with Japanese prints specialist Jane Orde
International
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- First Suffolk, now on to Norfolk
- Classic cars and live music at new Port Eliot event
- Farm tools help social enterprise to grow
Backpage
- Obituary: Lady Connie Middleton (1929-2023)
- Obituary: dealer Keith Hockin
- Obituary: John Myles (1942-2023)
- ‘Workhorse’ of the trade rides into the sunset after 70 years of toil
- Answers to the summer 2023 edition of the ATG giant crossword
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