Print issue 2757 (29 August 2026)
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News
- Antiques shops across central England hit by spate of thefts
- Crescent mark stirs up bidding on liner teapot
- Far more to get your teeth into: ‘googly-eyed £50 fox’ turns out to be a £50,000 thylacine
- Book dealers debate the AI bulk buying backlash
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Chelsea football amateur helped win the first-ever league title
- Egyptian antiquities emerge in London
- News in brief including the theft of valuable Old Masters works from an Italian museum
- Bid Barometer: issue 2757
- Precious metals prices: issue 2757
Auction Reports
- Isfahan to Islington: tiles ended up with ‘almost legendary’ dealer Jack Webb
- Tempting tazze courtesy of maker Ker take £16,000
- Watch was sold after princesses took their pick from Queen Charlotte's possessions
- Necklace gifted from artist Sir David Young Cameron to his wife
- Zoffoli cast of the Farnese Hercules found in a box under the stairs steps up to £12,000 hammer
Art Market
- Unrecorded portrait of Laura Knight by Harold Knight emerges at Dorset saleroom
- Gilman’s mum takes forty winks as she poses
Books & Works On Paper
- Welsh ceramics designer Weston Young lived a life full of creativity and chaos
- Calcutta Government House ledger recording weights of visitors sells at a hefty £18,500
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, August 26 to September 16
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Bath Book Fair: Beautiful city, bountiful business
- Interview with Runjeet Singh: ‘I’ve always liked to challenge myself’
- Rountree Tryon goes down to go up in the world
International
- Chair from c.1680 emerges at auction retaining original upholstery
- William and Mary Delftware vases attract interest in US auction
- Original Wedgwood Makeig-Jones watercolour design wows buyer
- Four Clarice Cliff Age of Jazz classics dance, play and sing into auction action
- Tiffany inspired the Loetz golden age
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
Fair Report
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