Print issue 2455 (22 August 2020)
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News
- Dealers sell Egyptian statue from Thomas Cook collection to City of Leicester for £150,000
- Ivory Act: no more challenges to new law says Supreme Court
- Rothschild taste adds to record Salisbury total
- New format Asian Art in London brings more emphasis on Islamic and Indian works
- Scottish auctions tightens the rules on face coverings
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Tiny box with calligraphy from the ‘Little man of Nuremberg’ who excelled at micro masterpieces
- Bid Barometer: issue 2455
- Craftsman who fought ‘tyranny of the machine’
- Precious metals prices: issue 2455
- News in Brief – including a Bronze Age hoard found in the Scottish Borders
Feature
- JEWELLERY: How keyboard bidders snapped up items during and after the lockdown
- What to wear at Fellows
- Antique pieces dominate at Woolley & Wallis even as bidders move online
- Sapphire brooch brings phone bids aplenty at Lawrences
- Wièse’s Renaissance revival brooch sells at Elmwood’s
- Once bitten: snake necklace brings demand at Chiswick Auctions
- Locket from the Pocket Venus makes £2800 in Colchester
- Brisbane priest's intaglio seal proves a cut above the rest at Bonhams
- Parmentier’s palm brooch sells at London auction
- Tiffany pendant in Japanese style trebles estimate at Skinner
- Pendant with hallmarks of Andrew Grima shines in Edinburgh sale
- Open for business: Five pieces of period jewellery offered by dealers
- Art Deco bracelet features in bountiful two-day sale in Maine
- Modernist jeweller makes his Marx at Philadelphia auction
- London bracelet surfaces in Sydney
Collector Interview
Auction Reports
- Vernacular crafts treasured for innate charm make hefty sums in the saleroom
- Drinking vessels bring cheering prices
- Samplers thread their way from orphanage to auction
- Happy buyer gets the cream of the crop
- Julia Margaret Cameron quartet was once part of a photograph album
- Sales platforms for totem station signs
- Erskine Childers’ sword sells in Irish auction
- ART MARKET: Sale inspired by new age thinking
- Brangwyn pushes the boat out
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £750 including a Landseer ink on paper
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Signed Oscar Wilde work is among literary highlights of a mixed auction
- Chase is on for hunting accounts
- Kelmscott Press copy tempts bidders at Hindman
- British and Irish book auctions: August 18-September 3, 2020
Previews
UK Auctions 2020: A report by the saleroom
Dealers’ Diary
- Art gallery recreates Picasso studio in London
- Stay cool in the heatwave if you visit Spitalfields
- The web shop window: Spitalfields shop advertising sign
- 5 Questions: picture frame dealer Peter Last
International
- Oak furniture rubs shoulders with Old Masters in Massachusetts single-owner selection
- Online bidders battle it out for British reverse glass painting
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Oxfordshire fair organiser hails camaraderie as all traders sign up for reorganised event
- Fair navigator and facemask maker
- Brighton and Lewes fleas bounce back
Letters & Opinion
- Sotheby’s 'overhead' fee – so what is the point of buyer’s premium?
- That brings me back to long hair days
Adverts
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