Print issue 2684 (15 March 2025)
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News
- Lord Ashcroft left ‘hugely disappointed’ as museum shuts medal collection gallery
- ‘Komai’ bachelor tea set sparkles at Sudeley Castle sale
- Old Master sale could set single-owner high
- Lavery and Harvey double up to provide big-hitting works at Essex saleroom
- 17th century clocks make starring role in Norfolk
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: BADA Friends fund purchase for Tudor-Jacobean mansion
- Door open to next part of Beedham collection
- News in brief including a Gutenberg Bible leaf up for auction
- Precious metals prices: issue 2684
- Bid Barometer: issue 2684
Feature
- WATCHES: Wellington’s gift to opera singer rumoured to be his mistress
- Patek’s flying saucer sighted
- Jeweller Auguste Dutertre found his niche concealing watch movements in ornate cases
- An early Dutch puritan keeps up with Henry Jones
- A Rolex Explorer with an intriguing history
- Piaget winning at Polo
- Cartier’s London-made watches in demand at Roseberys
- It’s complicated: the Universal Genève Tri-Compax
- Previews: Six watches offered at upcoming auctions
Auction Reports
- Martinware Brothers stoneware: a case of sophisticated simplicity
- Skeleton clock linked to leading French figures including famous enameller
- Rolls-Royce timepiece ‘given as Xmas present’
- Emperor Commodus bust brings bidders to Oxford auction
- ART MARKET: Flower pictures by Garden of England artists bloom in Kent saleroom
- Four Kemp-Welch works gallop into Lincoln auction
Books & Works On Paper
- Jacobite collector bids five times estimate for Bonnie Prince Charlie letter
- Violet’s autograph album featured great figures of the 19th century
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, March 11-17, 2025
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- More from Maastricht: latest previews from bumper TEFAF fair
- ‘Bringing the Cotswolds to London’
- Five questions with jewellery specialist Charlotte Morris Roper
- Agatha Christie first edition on offer at Harrogate Book Fair
International
- Chaumet marriage trousseau more than matches auction expectations
- Jug judged to be a bear essential
- Bobby Moore 1970 World Cup shirt sells in Paris
- Careful when going under a low bridge…
- New London dealers join Salon du Dessin line-up
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Ben Cooper promises to keep up high standards of Petersfield fair
- In focus: Antiques shops in the historic city of Carlisle
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