Print issue 2582 (04 March 2023)
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News
- Florentine panel fit for an emperor takes six-figure sum at Roseberys’ auction
- Treasure Act update boosts museum buys
- Not just another brick in the wall: a Babylonian memento emerges at Essex auction
- ‘Greatest ever try’ rugby shirt takes a record price
News Digest
- Pick of the week: The lighter side of mass destruction as novelty grenade lights up auction
- Bid Barometer: issue 2582
- Precious metals prices: issue 2582
- Comic where Roy of the Rovers makes his debut comes to auction
- News in Brief including an auction record for a first-edition iPhone
Feature
- WATCHES: Why Breitling was ‘the smartwatch of its time’
- Navigate your way round Breitling Navitimer dial styles
- Jaeger LeCoultre: ‘The best watchmaker in the world’ says specialist
- Deep pockets for the Fifty Fathoms
Auction Reports
- OLD MASTERS: Specialists have to vie for vendors in a competitive market
- Christie’s opens new year in New York with full series of Old Masters auctions
- Angelica Kauffman counted royalty among her patrons
- London pictured as the Great Fire loomed
- Hogarth among big names at Cheffins
- Pair of Flemish family portraits on offer
- Storck naval scene rises to a £52,000 result
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Time and place for Hemingway
- Napoleon document recognises exceptional bravery
- War hospital mag reflected mental and physical scars
- British and Irish book auctions: February 28-March 13, 2023
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Art and antiques fair TEFAF takes safety first option
- Coming to TEFAF: Shapero Rare Books
- Coming to TEFAF: Rafael Valls
- Coming to TEFAF: Callisto Fine Arts
- Bath Decorative Antiques Fair returns with new traders and loyal stalwarts
- Auction marks end of an era for textiles dealer Peta Smyth
- The web shop window: A sewing table by Charles-Guillaume Diehl
- 5 Questions: dealer Jan Keyne
- Petersfield Antiques Fair reaches the 50-year milestone
- It must be love at Grays Antiques Market and Alfies
International
- From darkness came light: the Bud Lear collection of historical candlesticks
- Unoccupied house found to be full of French art glass joys
- Galle and Daum feature in collector Blessing's mixed French and American sale
- Make a bone call when bidding for Chinese jiaguwen
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- On a space exploration mission: new salvage fair in Tiverton
- Portobello Road antiques market gains award
- Festival of Cards moves up the Junction
Letters
Backpage
Adverts
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