Print issue 2649 (29 June 2024)
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News
- Dickens’ gin jug packs punch at auction
- Filipino painting provides an art house record
- Clarissa the carp could be catch of the day in a saleroom
- Rare Rousseau herbarium bought by Swiss institution
- Rogers Jones to hold auctions in mid-Wales
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2649
- Coffin shaped poison bottle to appear at auction
- Emmet emerges in miniature
- Precious metals prices: issue 2649
- News in brief including Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes
Feature
- The world’s ‘first social network’: postcard collecting in focus
- Dedicated fairs attract rising numbers of dealers
- Commemorating 100 years
Auction Reports
- Fabulous Fabergé menagerie on offer from an unexpected single-owner consignment
- Sword ‘linked to the Lion of the Punjab’ takes a £44,000 slice of the action in huge four-day sale
- ART MARKET: Irish works ‘Nearly as strong as Celtic Tiger good old days’
- Marine artist James on a crash course to £6000 result
- Barns-Graham and Nicholson in the spotlight
Books & Works On Paper
- ‘One of the grandest’ of all English botanical books blossoms in US
- Embroidered bindings boost book results
- Small form recognises Lovelace the education pioneer
- Franklin searchers found themselves in need of help
- Shackleton’s last voyage seen in photos
- Books and works on paper calendar, June 26-July 9, 2024
Previews
Dealers’ diary
- Second staging of a new classic
- Five Questions: David Harvey
- Robert Young summer show: Simply
- The Fine Art Society muses over the work of Gerald Laing
International
- Artist not confirmed but Old Master tells a Florentine family history tale
- Bidders go for Subleyras link
- Bulldog advertising sign lights up the saleroom
- Menzel’s Moroccans became a timely work
- Highlights: a recent selection of stand-out lots sold at auction
- Fish market scene catches the eye
- Old Master by unknown painter causes a stir as Bavarian collection comes to auction
- How US troops stormed ashore on D-Day with a travel guide
Auction Calendar
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
The Back Pages
- Letter: why ATG’s got a drinking problem
- ATG letter: Policing will save ivory, not an antique trade ban
- Seminar set up to discuss challenge of new EU art import rules
- Book review: The gavel man Charlie Ross in his own words
- ATG letter: The late Derek Roberts - a generous man who will be greatly missed
- ATG letter: I feel I should post some praise for this service
- ATG letter: Howzat for an early cricket photo
- Fundraising plea for Brain Tumour Charity
Adverts
Cover - Issue 2649