Print issue 2406 (31 August 2019)
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News
- Roman mask leads antiquities parade
- Bought for £1 in a charity shop, will Chinese vase be worth £80,000?
- Viney hands over Salisbury reins
- First edition Compleat Angler to hook bidders
- Bellmans appoints jewellery specialist to head London office
- Fresh warning over CITES and no-deal Brexit
News Digest
- Pick of the week: American saleroom signals the way to English creamware
- Famed dynasty detailed in diaries and journals
- Bid Barometer
- Precious metals prices: issue 2406
- News In Brief – including Met museum consigning Chinese artworks to Sotheby's
Feature
- SILVER: Power of Scotland – spotlight on British silver produced north of the border
- How ‘duty dodgers’ can pay their way at auction today
- Silver hammer highlights: inclinding a table snuff box with an Indian Mutiny connection
- Silver auction previews: including a George V bowl modelled on the Winchester measure
- Tennants appoints new silver specialist
- The brief history of Australian hallmarking
Auction Reports
- Collector snaps up best of Charlotte Rhead
- British livery boosts appeal of early German locomotive
- Fact and faction in Ireland
- Time travellers touch down in south London
- Two Chinese results underpinned by cautious cataloguing
- ART MARKET: How monthly format can be marvellous
- Southern salerooms awash with varied array of eye-catching maritime art
- Affordable art: Three works sold for £2000 or under including Jacobite portrait
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Recipes cook up saleroom storm
- Blaeu blows to a record result
- Gladstone joins Khayyam club
- Rackham is saluted in online sale
- Coverdale comes top of family group
- British and Irish book auctions: August 27-September 13
Previews
Antiquities
- Mask ‘matches Crosby Garrett find’
- Hellenistic period single gold earring emerges for sale
- Corinthian helmet offered in Edinburgh auction
- Greek gold oak wreath offered in New York auction
- Ancient art from estate of prominent dealer Ingrid McAlpine to be sold in Salisbury
- Roman eagle flies into London gallery
- Bronze Age shield discovery comes to Suffolk auction
Dealers’ Diary
- London gallery goes back to its Cornish roots
- Harvey has a game plan for Petersfield
- 5 Questions: Paul Boorman
- The web shop window: Ballot box from dealer Gerald Mathias
- A place going back to the future
International
- Turf stacks turn up Down Under
- Tray brings exotic design to Horta saleroom
- Dufy sails in to Palm Beach auction
- Korean rarity comes to Bonhams
- Map of Milan offered at Il Ponte
- Lalique bowl with Mistletoe decoration heads to Kansas auction
Fairs & Markets
- York National Book Fair is a high flier
- Two events in Suffolk in classy venues
- New face at Clerkenwell fair
Letters & Opinion
- Your ARR review missed out exemption at auctions
- Jane Austen was censored by the US too
- Do you recognise this castle seal?
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