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Antiques scrapped as gold and silver prices spike again

23 August 2011

A RECORD high for gold and another surge in the price of silver led to considerable volumes of antiques being sold for scrap last week.

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From Edinburgh’s other festival…

23 August 2011

The latest sale of Scottish silver at Lyon & Turnbull included a number of early Edinburgh hollowares, including this pair of James VI (I of England) communion cups.

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Shop vandalised in revenge attack

23 August 2011

DURING the early hours of Tuesday, August 16, the Antique Textiles Company in Hampstead was vandalised – the victim of what is thought to be a revenge attack.

Riots disrupt trade but firms largely escape attacks

15 August 2011

THE art and antiques trade survived largely unscathed from the widespread riots seen in England last week. However, many businesses across the country were forced to close...

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Turning lathe at $55,000 in US sale

15 August 2011

THIS Holtzapffel & Deyerlein ornamental turning lathe made in London c.1827 came up for sale at Skinner in Marlborough, Massachusetts in a Science, Technology and Clocks sale.

Crossrail answers Grays’ queries – but the further questions remain

15 August 2011

THE Crossrail saga rumbles on for the dealers at Grays antiques centre in Mayfair.

French lift ban on private treaty sales by auctioneers

08 August 2011

FRENCH auction houses have won their battle to conduct private treaty sales.