Letters to the Editor

Reader Ray Heath has come up with a way to recycle his copies of ATG.

An occasional feature on mystery works the Art UK charity is seeking help to identify.

Dealer and collector Keith Baker has been in a long-running dispute with his beloved dog Belle over who gets to read Antiques Trade Gazette first each Tuesday.

MADAM – Has that antique dealer in Surrey who asked about alternatives to bubble wrapping ever thought of using straw or scrunched-up newspaper, both of which are recyclable (Letters, ATG No 2420)?

MADAM – I was surprised by your editorial on 1stdibs last week and what it implies (News, ATG No 2419).

MADAM – Like many antiques businesses, we sell small fragile objects (in our case, ceramics and glass) that require protective wrapping for safe transit, especially when we’re sending them by post or courier.

MADAM – Gerry Pearce’s letter (ATG No 2419) is in my view an example of double standards. He, of course, makes no mention of the innocent donor who almost certainly would have retained the £380,000 vase had he/ she been aware of the value and even maybe have sold it through Ewbank’s themselves!

MADAM – Sleepers and lucky antique finds make interesting and headline grabbing news stories.

MADAM – “The course of justice often prevents it” – Edward Counsel (1849-1939), Australian public servant and administrator

Businessman Nick Radclyffe and his family run Foxdenton, a producer of English fruit gin liqueurs and London dry gin, and can trace the family’s ownership of the Foxdenton Estate in Buckinghamshire back to the 14th century.

MADAM – You very kindly published a letter from me last year (ATG No 2339) regarding my search for the whereabouts of the three remaining Troika pottery bowls of fruit.

Bernard Quaritch marked the opening of its Bedford Row premises last week with a red velvet cake in the shape of the new shop.

MADAM – what a surprise to read auctioneer Gary Watson’s letter (ATG No 2411) which advocated disposing of all deceased property and estate through the medium of a public auction.

MADAM – It’s good to see the Irish applying ARR as it was intended ie the seller pays and no charge on estate sales (ATG No 2409).

MADAM – I have to say that I have been very upset and distressed, and also confused, by the events concerning principally the supposed sale of the majority shareholding of the BADA fair.

MADAM – I was pleased to see the report in ATG No 2410 on the cricket collection sold by the Canterbury Auction Galleries.

MADAM – I wholly concur with the sentiment expressed by your reader Robert Pugh (ATG No 2407) that ‘good luck’ stories are just as often ‘bad luck’ stories.

MADAM – I was much taken with the George Du Maurier ‘aesthetic’ drawing at Wallis & Wallis (ATG No 2409).

MADAM: I refer to the article (ATG No 2410) on a necklace and bracelet composed of 1st and 2nd century Roman gold Aurei coins said to have been commissioned by the Emperor Napoleon as a gift for his sister the Princess Pauline Borghese.

MADAM – The decision to sell the BADA fair to proven art and antiques fair organisers is an excellent move.