Print issue 2321 (16 December 2017)
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News
- House of Lords to debate ivory ban next week
- Art crime team back on the beat
- Wright price offers encouragement for Old Masters
- Fellows’ seven-figure yellow sparkler
- Gavel falls on Bloomsbury Auctions
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: Lofft gives a painting lift
- Bid Barometer
- Victoria Cross trio includes a record
- News In Brief
Militaria
- Beating the U-boats - a Victoria Cross record
- Birmingham auction house sells bell from Falklands War Royal Navy ship
- For U the bell tolls
- Tibet in the frame from golf to gore
- Powder horn from the Battle of Concord 1775 on offer at US dealership
- Sit up and take notice of wartime posters
- Civil war posters recall memory of a Republican fighter
- Coming under fire: antique firearms and ordnance laws
- Eastern weapons and cased pistols point to high prices
- Gold box marks freedom of New York awarded to American naval hero who captured British ship
Auction Reports
- Raise your glasses to the Kaplan collection sold at auction
- Cider and a scapegoat in focus in Salisbury sale
- ART MARKET: Stanley Spencer shines in Modern British art auctions
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: The Brunel family tunnel vision
- Donkey work pays off for £17,000 Golden Asse
- Birdlife books cause a flap in salerooms across the world
- Sci-fi bidders take their chance
Previews
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Dealers’ Diary
- Depository of good dealer ideas
- Shop talk – Timeless Furniture
- 5 Questions: Angela Hardy of Burlington
- Splendour is court in the act at London dealer's show
- Belgrave hopes for a boost from busy time
International
- Boxer Rebellion link backs soapstone sale
- Early German tinplate cars appear at Pennsylvania auction
- Richly decorated Chinese screen emerges at Paris auction
- Carved Song dynasty figure offered at Hotel Drouot auction
Auction Calendar
Fairs & Markets
- Plate on offer at Welsh fair recalls the elephant in the court room
- Cracking idea now providing esoteric collecting field
- Léa Stein jewellery design sparkles at Grays
- Old textiles fuel folk art
Letters to the editor
- Why selling ivory is shameful
- The post-1947 rule works, so why change?
- Pendant celebrates a sane King George III
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