News

The mixed feelings felt by the trade towards television boiled over last week as David Dickinson became involved in a very public altercation with a dealer at the spring NEC fair.

Key trade issues raised in this week’s news pages will be addressed at the Art of Dealing conference at Earls Court on May 16.

LAPADA are to target young dealers in a membership drive after their latest survey shows hardly any existing members are aged under 35.

For obvious reasons the Royal Doulton 'Norfolk' pattern is avidly collected in East Anglia.

TWO long-term directors of auctioneers Rosebery's are to leave southeast London to pursue a career offering antiques themed breaks from a Pyrenean château.

Right: this handsome reticulated porcelain vase and cover by George Owen was the highlight of a private and local collection of Royal Worcester porcelain sold by Glasgow auctioneers McTear’s on March 25.

A SMALL Renoir portrait painted in 1913, with an estimated value of €170,000-200,000 (£120,000-140,000), was stolen from the Tajan premises in Paris shortly before it was to be offered at a sale on March 31.