Print issue 2695 (31 May 2025)
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News
- Dealers fear downgrading at next Winter Olympia fair
- Saunders Old Masters sale at Sotheby's struggles to impress
- Nuts about novelty silver: Crichton claret jug nets £36,000
- First part of spectacular Traveller Collection roars into the saleroom
- Castle Howard consignment creates Faberge animal magic
- Phillips makes management changes
- It just gets better for Spurs – Euro trophy win and success scored with auction bid
- ‘A feast for the eyes’: Luxurious de Heem still life emerges
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Simple garden statue found to be Emperor Septimius Severus
- Photos show Maria Callas on and off stage
- News in brief including looted antiquities return to Peru
- Bid Barometer: issue 2695
- Precious metals prices: issue 2695
Auction Reports
- Bone models story fleshed out: by prisoners of war or craftsmen?
- Gerrit Jensen is the suggestion as marquetry strong box maker
- Teaset design by Vanessa Bell fits the bill in Cornwall
- Manchester football derby plays out in the saleroom
- Taylor a happy Hammer after hefty auction prices
- JPR Williams’ Barbarians jersey was worn in famed game
- The 1932 Battle of Britain: Newcastle Utd v Rangers football programme nets £6500
- Excitement builds as Norman Wilkinson railway poster comes to auction
- Casas creates a Catalan classic poster
- Indian art interest rolls out to a wider audience
- Indian animal sketches bring demand in single-owner collection
- Sculptor’s work emerges from socialite’s house
Books & Works On Paper
- Numbers add up to good result for revolutionary mathematical book
- Survivor’s letter sets Titanic record
- Gould proud of his work on the most sumptuous and costly of British bird books
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, May 28 to June 17, 2025
Previews
- Knife was wielded by an SAS founder who played billiards with ‘Paddy’ Mayne amid battle carnage
- Special medals of special forces leader
- Previews: issue 2695
Dealers’ Diary
- Popular Battersea fair performing well against economic headwinds
- Five questions with Dawn Albinger of Archives Fine Books
- London Underground enamel map is a rare survivor from 1915
- Clouds lift TEFAF NY thanks to a French design classic
International
- Extra Tavitian temptations as further works with country house taste comes to Stair
- Table drums up auction interest again
- Jazz poster reveals Jack Kerouac as MC
- Chinese ‘aubergine’ cup ascends well above estimate
- Hoffmann centrepieces head back to Austria for restoration
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Storeroom becomes showroom in Swindon
- Between lake and lawns at Bayfield Hall
- Sport collectors also like to play with older purchases
Backpage
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