Print issue 2731 (21 February 2026)
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News
- Fairs organiser announces plans for new events in Perth and Manchester
- Michelangelo puts his stamp on latest Old Master sales
- Could be putti in the hands of a UK buyer after export stop
- Spotted online in Australia, stolen panel returns
- ‘Tudor Heart’ pendant acquired by the British Museum
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Meissen with a Delft touch emerges in Nottingham
- Elizabethan table stands out in Fitzsimmons sale
- News in brief including former Trinity House Paintings director Steven Beale charged
- Bid Barometer: issue 2731
- Precious metals prices: issue 2731
Feature
- Coins, banknotes and medals: It could have been a terrible year... but it certainly wasn’t
- Rediscovering the Order of the Thistle
- Modern era gold coins: The battle of the giants
- Medal marks arrival of a princess escaping as civil war looms
- Masterpiece of numismatic neoclassical design on offer
- Bradbury Wilkinson saved for posterity
- Trafalgar and Spartan add up to £9100 result
- Here comes the Heavy Brigade
- Show of ‘magnificent courage’
- Indian service in the spotlight
- Killed over Germany
- ‘Death penny’ medal group makes nine times estimate
- Order awarded by a doomed Afghan king
Auction Reports
- Antique props once seen on screen, now starring in the saleroom
- Derbyshire Shrovetide football scores £4200 many miles away in Cornwall
- Bidder demonstrates a burning desire to own a mining model pithead
- Door opens to Dorothy Garland at the Dominion Theatre
- ART MARKET: Sitting comfortably as online bidding boosts number of new year auctions
Books & Works On Paper
- An unlikely but warm friendship revealed in a fascinating archive
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, February 18 to March 10, 2026
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Plenty to bite into at The Winter Decorative Fair in Battersea
- New antiques dealers believe The Decorative Fair at Battersea ‘is the perfect mix’
- Customer leaves it to last minute for rug purchase as LARTA celebrates a strong event
- Gallery triumphant after €200,000 sale at BRAFA
- The Godfather letter among highlights of Rare Books LA
- Clinch a Klimt deal at just four figures
- Parks highlighted fight for civil rights
- Winter in Chester fuels warm feeling
- Art Stable in Dorset hosts father and daughter art exhibition
International
- English silver impresses at two US salerooms on the same day
- Mystery Old Master leg kicks $200-400 estimate aside to take $45,000
- Royal Doulton figures add touch of character from the 1920s
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
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