Print issue 2642 (11 May 2024)
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News
- Buyer hunts down a record Dunhill lighter
- Great set of prints now on offer over a century later
- Mannerist bronzes make 400 times estimate
- Doll raises the baa at specialist auction
- New chapter for Shapero - still in Mayfair
- Ben Griffiths joins the Roseberys top team
- Original cover artwork for Harry Potter
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2642
- HMS Hood captain’s medals up at auction
- Titanic watch takes house record price
- Precious metals prices: issue 2642
- News in brief including Heritage Auctions expanding in London
Auction Reports
- Horology holds the attention during a four-day sale
- Arts & Crafts clock comes with a fairytale ending
- Amelia Robertson Hill - ‘A delight to see her works attaining recognition’
- ART MARKET: Fantin-Latour roses rise to a regional high point
- Middle East painted to Western taste by Huysmans
Books & Works On Paper
- Physical attractions on display at Firsts fair
- It’s just your calotype: an introduction for enthusiasts
- The intriguing Ingoldsby Legends were indeed unreal
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, May 8-30, 2024
Previews
Asian Art Previews
Dealers’ diary
- Simply the chest at Petworth
- Hurrah for a Suffragette vesta case for sale at Derbyshire fair
- New art fair: ‘Everyone bit our hand off to take part’
- Specialists double up for an exhibition
- Folk art specialist Young celebrates the British high street
- Five Questions: Lesley Ferguson
International
- Canaletto works (with a bit of help)
- Flights of fantasy: artist depicted hot-air balloons he never saw
- Monkey business from von Max
- Latest brews: ninth Brandt tea-infuser emerges
- Prud’hon Psyche caused a stir
- Wash your hands... go on, it won’t bite
- Kirchner steps back into view
- Javanese prince who became an artist
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Reclamation and antiques dealer joins up with Norwich department store
- Potting and pottering with an East Sussex brocante
- Adams looks back on 35 years of Horti fairs
The Back Pages
- Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers (SOFAA) latest members' trip
- Starship boldly goes back to Star Trek creator’s son
- This plaque has been a puzzler for decades
- Chip in with fine art golf memories
- Two new books to light up your reading time
- Obituary – Ronald Benjamin (1927-2024)
- Memorial service – David William Fuller
- Correction: Stolen advert
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Cover - Issue 2642