Print issue 2706 (23 August 2025)
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News
- Forum Auctions splits from Dreweatts and Gurr Johns
- HMRC consults on fee increase to anti-money laundering rules
- Surprise: gold, jewelled and enamelled ring reveals hidden detail
- Intense Bloomsbury relationship – but a serene still-life
- Museum buyer sought to keep ‘outstanding’ £6m maritime chart collection in the UK
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Scarce Wemyss bulldog surfaces in the Cotswolds
- Metal detectorist's find tells the story of Sihtric I
- News in brief including a collection of early British stamps coming to market in Singapore
- Bid Barometer: issue 2706
- Precious metals prices: issue 2706
Auction Reports
- Saltglaze stoneware extravaganza in a South Yorkshire sale
- Rare corkscrew excites the helixophiles
- Furniture to the taste of 18th century aristocrats
- A later, 1930s, Polar Medal, for a relief ship... but still a £4600 hammer price
- More Louis Vuitton Explorer trunks discovered in the wilds of Surrey
- ART MARKET: Bloomsbury boosts debut sale
- Southall Cornish view raises funds for his Yorkshire school
Books & Works On Paper
- The magic of an occult themed lot: £3 3s becomes £7100
- Manuscript leaf flies to five times the low estimate
- Harry Potter hardbacks come signed by Rowling and cover illustrators
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, August 20 to September 3, 2025
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Look beyond the Buffet signature
- Norfolk firm expands to Petworth
- Hopes for London’s W2 to become an ‘art postcode’
- Moore and Chadwick matched up in Mayfair
- Edinburgh auction pays homage to influential dealer Gillian Raffles
International
- Puisaye potters: Ceramicists from the Burgundy area take centre stage in a single-owner collection
- Gory sketch goes for more than a million euros at auction
- Virgin and Child originally sat in a French chateau's chapel
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- School’s out for pupils but in for art and antiques fans this August
- Newsletter spreading the fair word is up to 2000 subscribers
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