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Set your stall out for doll collectors

14 April 2025

The pages of ATG have included many antiques stalls over the years but not many that measure just over 2ft long.

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IACF takes on Builth Wells event

14 April 2025

Welsh showground fair run since its launch 25 years ago by family business Continuity is changing hands

Trade urged to be alert over financial sanctions reporting

14 April 2025

Art market businesses in the UK will shortly become subject to reporting requirements for financial sanctions.

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Child prodigy Mendelssohn on song in saleroom

14 April 2025

String of portraits offered by south London auction house included sketch of the 12-year-old musical prodigy

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Sienese art celebrated in Christie’s selling show

14 April 2025

Christie’s private sales department is holding a selling exhibition titled Siena and the Renaissance.

Turing and Bayley Delilah project archive

News in brief including a Cambridge college's acquisition of Turing papers

14 April 2025

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an archive of scientific papers relating to Alan Turing being acquired by King’s College, Cambridge

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Rolex worn by first British pilot to fly solo round the world comes to the rostrum

14 April 2025

A Rolex GMT-Master 'Pepsi' stainless steel automatic dual time wristwatch first worn by Sheila Scott OBE (1922-88) on her record-breaking solo flight around the world is coming to auction.

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Spring in the step of exhibitors at the latest Classic Antique Fairs edition

14 April 2025

First event at this time of year generates encouraging feedback and a healthy string of sale successes

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Obituary: ATG's antiquarian books columnist Ian McKay

14 April 2025

Ian McKay (November 22, 1945-February 19, 2025) was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, to Scottish father David McKay and English mother Alice Harland, who met while serving in the RAF during the Second World War. He went to school in Kent.

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It was ‘art first, objects second’ for Knox at home

14 April 2025

If Knox is best known today for his work with Liberty & Co, in his own time on the Isle of Man he was better recognised as an art teacher and for his study of the local Celtic crosses and standing stones.

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Mr Carter’s tavern mug is no small beer at £3400

14 April 2025

Estimated at £500-800, this large Vauxhall salt-glazed stoneware tavern mug sold for £3400 at Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

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My word, what a Louis Vuitton trunk...

14 April 2025

Trunks for books which could be placed on a table, showcasing the volumes inside, are among Louis Vuitton’s most popular and collectable early models.

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Precious metals prices: issue 2689

14 April 2025

On Friday, April 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3216.87 / €2823.97 /£2455.63

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The Sunnyside furniture project

14 April 2025

The few surviving pieces of furniture designed by Archibald Knox were mainly produced at the Sunnyside Workshops in Douglas, founded by Knox with his friend and patron Wilson James Ashburner in 1899.

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Fairs news in brief: events in Essex and Newcastle

14 April 2025

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

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The Olympia exhibition that led to a dealing career

14 April 2025

When Anthony Bernbaum curated the exhibition Archibald Knox, Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of his Time at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair in 2014, he was working in investment banking.

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Ceramics star among lots from Antiques Roadshow expert and former Christie's specialist

14 April 2025

Collection amassed by Christie’s veteran Hugo Morley-Fletcher includes ‘special group’ of porcelain

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Early glimpse of glittering talents such as Bawden and Ravilious

14 April 2025

Paul Nash, looking back at the 1924-25 period when he taught design at the Royal College of Art, said: “I was fortunate in being there during an outbreak of talent and can remember at least eight men and women who have made names for themselves since then in a variety of different directions.”

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Archibald Knox, a collecting history

14 April 2025

A closer look at the post-war appreciation of the great designer including exhibitions and auction landmarks

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Whitefriars Banjo vase plucks a top price

14 April 2025

One of perhaps only two known ruby red versions of the Whitefriars Banjo vase sold for £17,200 in Devon on April 9.

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