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News
- Ewe beauty: naive painting is star lot at Yorkshire auction
- Library from famed Foyle books family up for sale
- Trade urged to be on the look-out for jewellery
- Funds needed to buy Henry VIII tapestry to return it to UK
- New Treasure Act rules take effect this month
News Digest
- Darwin notes reveal evolution of a book
- Pick of the week: Family collection of manuscripts and pictures tell story of an artist lost in sadness
- Bid Barometer: issue 2603
- Precious metals prices: issue 2603
- News in brief including the return of looted antiquities to Libya
Feature
- PHOTOGRAPHICA: Double visions - stereoscopes
- Sir Brian May: one vision
- Stereoscopic viewer perfect for a sales drive
- Your photo calling card: the carte de visite craze
- US photos vendor strikes gold with westward expansion
- Huge archive of slides takes 40 times the top estimate
- Look at the big picture thanks to huge Leica dummy sales models
Auction Reports
- Black Forest chess set bid three times over estimate
- ‘Ferris wheel’ timepiece turns heads
- Signs sales signal a robust market
- Kreem of the Truro collection
- Meat and greet: butcher’s slabs display collecting popularity
- From chocolate and tea to tyres and petrol: a promotional selection of results
- ART MARKET: Artist identified? That’s Joli good
- Racing pics in the running once again
- Ben Nevis takes artist back to highs
Books & Works On Paper
- Science works from big hitters attract new fans
- Album revealing roots of Kew gardens is on export hold
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, July 25-August 18, 2023
Previews
Collector Interview
Dealers’ Diary
- American buyers boost London Art Week
- Hovercraft inventor Cockerell was also a collector
- A sip that gave magical power
- Go deep into American art
- The web shop window: 19th century French cocktail cabinet
- 5 Questions with Carolina Valdés Vignoli
International
- Derain design stretches to ceramics
- Platter taken to 11 times estimate at German auction
- Romantic view of the sky – seen from behind bars in a prison
- Asian buyers battle at auction for relics of their regions
- Peter, Pietro or Pieter makes his name
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Blackdog Events adds garden setting to growing schedule of fairs
- Stags Head takes over Northamptonshire fair
- Market also offers an indoor event
Letters
- That spoon was probably adapted for a disability
- Charlie Ross is not connected with Hanson Ross saleroom
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