Print issue 2640 (27 April 2024)
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News
- Jewellery taken during ram raid at Hansons auction house
- The Treasure House Fair hopes to ease Brexit red tape
- Spink sells Coins of England reference book to Sovereign Rarities
- Collectors respond to call for earliest phone bidding at Massachusetts auction
- Goldsmiths committee discusses de Lamerie fakes
- Sutherland’s ‘investigative’ Churchill study comes to auction
- New Messums gallery to aid Lowestoft regeneration
News Digest
- Pick of the week: The scoop on an Austral Islands kava ladle found in Derbyshire
- Blancpain watch bought in 1957 surfaces at auction
- News in brief including a clock specialist joining Olympia Auctions
- Bid Barometer: issue 2640
- Precious metals prices: issue 2640
Feature
- SILVER: Wonders produced worldwide in a west London sale focus
- Dressed to kilt: a super sporran
- Rich pickings in the Cotswolds
- Barehead spoon boasts early date
- Bowls both with links to influential designer Dresser
- Tortoise novelty silver could be a sound purchase
- Cistern used for wine doubles up as racing trophy
Auction Reports
Books & Works On Paper
- Kidder the cookery school pioneer comes up at auction
- Judge Dredd makes his comic debut
- Lakes picture book comes with links to Liverpool worthies
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, April 23-May 20, 2024
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Nicholson women showcased at Crane Kalman
- Probably best not to use this bowl to enjoy drinking wine
- Five questions with tribal art specialist Ian Shaw
- Show celebrates five decades of sumptuous costume jewellery
- Eye on an Object: dominoes made by prisoners-of-war
International
- Constable link tempts bidders to German auction
- Short-lived Francis Bacon furniture finds modern-day fans
- London art dealer buys Moore’s classical women at German auction
- Silver lights up Dr Fischer's 300th auction
- Tinplate landscape viewed as worth four times estimate
Fairs Report
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
Backpage
- Heroes and crooks, stolen bronzes… it must be tales of the antiques trade
- Obituary: Ceramics dealer Rod Jellicoe
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