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News
- Long journey ends in LA
- Trade warned about latest rise in thefts
- Art dealer rediscovers 16th century portrait miniature by Lavinia Fontana in Texas
- Cope sale: ‘One of the most significant dispersals of British coins in decades’
- Fairs boss buys into brand recognition
- Large Ruskin collection on sale at gallery
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Discoverer of Franklin’s fate
- Highest price paid for not doing your duty
- News in brief including a mural featured on 'Fake or Fortune?' being withdrawn from auction
- Bid Barometer: issue 2639
- Precious metals prices: issue 2639
Feature
- SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Collectors who know their type
- Botanical group features in Battle auction action
- Goniometer going, going, gone at £2700
- Medieval astrolabe finds its way to a London saleroom
- Slot machines provide all the fun of the seaside even in rain
- Rock on with a jukebox purchase
- Rare British camera emerges from Viennese source
- Photographic viewing device can operate all day and night
- Original phrenology models turn heads at auction
- Microscopes under bidder focus in UK and US auctions
- Steaming ahead but in safety thanks to lanterns
- Wurlitzer organ on a whirl in Staffordshire saleroom
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Cornish art collection creates Newlyn School wave of interest
- Seven works give market snapshot of Spencer Watson
Books & Works On Paper
- Barrett Browning sale bonanza as family collection comes to auction
- More from the Bobins collection: Danube danger overcome by the intrepid Ludwig
- A fresh-faced band called The Beatles make it big on Merseyside
- Comic featuring Superman debut soars to record sum
- British and Irish book auctions, April 17-May 8, 2024
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Augustus John: genius wasted or fulfilled?
- Pippin work pops in to the 62nd Philadelphia Show
- Tribal fair unveils its online version
- Five questions with Bob Aibel of Moderne
- Hoppen takes a fresh view of Japan
- Eye on an object: French sculptor's terracotta model
International
- European ceramics that went to Oz come back on the market
- George Owen Worcester wins admirers
- Giant Garrard wine cistern adds plenty of weight to Heritage Auctions' sale
- Professor lost his head but kept it as well
- Copy of Toulouse-Lautrec's first poster emerges in US sale
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
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