Print issue 2689 (19 April 2025)
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News
- Trump's tariffs: trade seeks clarity on antiques exemptions as price of gold soars
- UK regains second place as global art market cools
- Whitefriars Banjo vase plucks a top price
- Trade urged to be alert over financial sanctions reporting
- Lowry’s Going to the Mill goes to auction 99 years after purchase
- Stow-on-the-Wold stalwart dealers the Baggotts pass their business on to new generation
- St Bride shines as once forgotten artist Louise Jopling moves into the collecting limelight
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: Set your stall out for doll collectors
- Sienese art celebrated in Christie’s selling show
- News in brief including a Cambridge college's acquisition of Turing papers
- Bid Barometer: issue 2689
- Precious metals prices: issue 2689
Feature
- On island time – the Archibald Knox story
- Archibald Knox, a collecting history
- Finding Knox ‘was like falling in love’
- The Olympia exhibition that led to a dealing career
- The Sunnyside furniture project
- An island trail in Archibald Knox’s footsteps
- It was ‘art first, objects second’ for Knox at home
Auction Reports
- Ceramics star among lots from Antiques Roadshow expert and former Christie's specialist
- Sevres plate puts on a display of French chivalry
- My word, what a Louis Vuitton trunk...
- Mr Carter’s tavern mug is no small beer at £3400
- ART MARKET: Child prodigy Mendelssohn on song in saleroom
Books & Works On Paper
- Reformer and religious author later burnt at the stake
- Early glimpse of glittering talents such as Bawden and Ravilious
- Plants pressed into action to create Harder’s Herbaria
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, April 16-30, 2025
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Spring in the step of exhibitors at the latest Classic Antique Fairs edition
- Later spot for Petersfield this month as first fair under Ben Cooper control comes up
International
- Print purchaser was active in ‘Golden Age’ of collecting
- Ottoman inkwell attracts 37 bids at online auction
- Modern furniture made with the Niemeyer touch
- Kongo nail figure hammered down at four times estimate
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- IACF takes on Builth Wells event
- Exhibitors happy to travel to Enys House
- Fairs news in brief: events in Essex and Newcastle
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