Print issue 2742 (09 May 2026)
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News
- Anti-money laundering rule change welcomed as a time saver
- Neumeister closure shock announcement
- Gentileschi goes head and shoulders above estimate
- Antiques dealer Lawrence Prentice joins the Lillie Road line-up
- Silver table top becomes latest Huguenot Museum purchase
- New York book dealers help to foil attempt to sell stolen love letters by John Keats
- Victorian topaz girandole brooch takes top honours at Scottish sale
- Area of Ardingly fair cordoned off after dealer discovers Second World War shell
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Vendor ‘shocked and delighted’ with Swiss pocket watch auction result
- Dealer flags up a part of American history ahead of antiques fair
- News in brief including an auctioneer and picture specialist launching a new business
- Bid Barometer: issue 2742
- Precious metals prices: issue 2742
Auction Reports
- Not just castles on castle-tops
- Inscriptions tell tales of colonial silver items
- ART MARKET: London calling for Welsh art as more Kyffin Williams works set high prices
- Modern British art highlights including an early Ivon Hitchens and an unusual work by Beryl Cook
Books & Works On Paper
- Big bucks for British documents as James I royal warrant and Trafalgar order of battle emerge
- Ignatius Sancho second edition sells in New York
- Naturalist got into a flap after his pigeons book was hijacked
- Why running out of PBFA carrier bags is a good sign
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, May 6-24, 2026
Feature
Previews
Collector Interview
Dealers’ Diary
- Potter around a special Battersea selection
- Turner prints quest leads to latest exhibition at Mayfair art dealer Gerrish Fine Art
- London and Paris trio team up for Orientalism show
- Beauty of Brancusi’s world caught on camera
- London gallery expands horizons as 15th to 19th century art is paired with focus on photography
International
- De Laszlo portraits rediscovered in North Carolina auction
- Get your claws into Supersol
- Galle sideboard ripe for a new owner
- ‘Try to find another one that’s not in a museum’
- Buyer splashes out on British wine and water ewers connected to American high society
- Dublin-made Egyptian revival mirror brings competition between 16 bidders
- Bidders will be the judge
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
Backpage
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