Royal family left red-faced as ivory gong sounds wrong note

Trade greets tax reporting change delay

Quarterly returns proposal could now be shelved for good

CINOA snubs resale right conference

An attempt by collecting agencies and copyright organisations

A global ARR: Industry views

“We have never supported the argument that ARR should

‘Early Velázquez’ notified by state brings Spanish record

‘Early Velázquez’ notified by state brings Spanish

Books body rebrands training scheme after employment law shift

Books body rebrands training scheme after employment

Online buyers boost spend

The overall value of online sales in the art market

EBay threat over Australian sales tax

Online giant eBay is threatening to block Australian

Travelling from London to honour Trafalgar hero

A £100 Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund sword, one of 23 awarded

Old Master returned to Poland

An Old Master marine painting looted by the Nazis during

Pick of the Week: Godwin sits comfortably in Cirencester

A rare ebonised framed armchair after the original

Bid Barometer – issue 2290

A Chinese blue and white moon flask with scroll handles

Raise your glass to Arts & Crafts

Primary provenanced Arts & Crafts furniture comes

News In Brief

A month after its Stuttgart competitor Nagel said it

Tusk force: timely ivory pays off

Vendor decides to sell inherited collection ahead of expected market turbulence

Choc pot success

Silver was among the success stories of the wide-ranging

Houdin mystery clock could be record result

In what has been a buoyant first quarter for clocks

Fleecy does it for Lowestoft joys

What Aylsham auction house Keys (20% buyer’s premium)

The joy of six brings Duke’s Goode times

One of the more intriguing clocks to come in the market

French School painting puzzler

Gloucestershire auction throws up attribution debate over an eight-times estimate picture

In gallows humour

Another French School painting, catalogued as early

Single owners central to Tennants’ sale

Several single-owner collections boosted the total

Dreamlike scene of stone circle captures the senses

A painting by British landscape artist Harry Epworth

Previews: Up to £500

Embossed with a classical female figure holding aloft

Previews: £501 - £2000

This mid-18th century quilt, embroidered in coloured

Previews: £2001 - £5000

John Nicholson’s Country House sale on May 13 in Haslemere

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

Car collector and master restorer Nigel Dawes has consigned

Previews: £30,000 plus

A major work by Jenny Saville (b.1970) is to be sold

A necessary evolution

A hundred or so years ago, a group of booksellers gathered

Sponsor’s welcome

‘As London’s newest specialist auction house, our sponsorship of this ATG supplement is a very natural fit’

Eminence on a budget

With prices lagging behind modern limited editions, Old Master prints may be the market’s best-kept secret

A brief history of Old Master prints

A millennia after the technology was first used in

Back to the high street

A new generation of dealers, auctioneers and fair organisers is keen to show there is a thriving future for the trade

A new breed of book dealer…

“I would love to see the book world become more accessible

Stronger by association

From the earliest days a common bond has bound the antiquarian book trade together. And, more than ever, professional standards matter

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOOK DEALING ASSOCIATIONS

Following a general meeting of booksellers held at

The art of illustration

From Arthur Rackham to Gerald Scarfe, there is a burgeoning market for original illustration art of the 19th and 20th centuries

William Heath Robinson

The name of William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is enshrined

Mapping the 20th century

Interest in 20th century maps is growing rapidly among dealers, collectors and curators. And some are rarer than you might think

The London Map Fair

Twentieth century cartographic material has become

Many happy returns

Literary anniversaries are a good story to tell to potential sellers but do they bring greater interest and greater prices?

LITERARY ANNIVERSARIES: A TIMELINE

Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer

Recent hammer highlights

This striking image titled Critical Position of HMS

Dates for the diary

A selection of forthcoming UK and international books, prints and maps fairs and auctions

Under one roof

For the second year running, the two major events –

Art and dec: Battersea duo delight

Paintings, drawings and prints are among best performers at spring showing of popular fair

Harewood wows in West Yorkshire

Next up from the Antiques Dealers Fair Limited (ADFL)

Ancient art stands out in West Hollywood

Ancient art dealer Barakat Gallery has opened an extra

5 Questions

Saxon Durrant started his business Metroretro in 1994.

Buxton takes decorative path

The Buxton Antiques Fair, organised by Cooper Events

Modern leanings at TEFAF

The second TEFAF New York event opens this week, running

Deals made in an instant

Last week, Sherbone dealer Patrick Macintosh sold a

Ahlden

A Russian ceramic homage to Catherine the Great is

Frankfurt

A rare English humpback carriage clock is coming up

Florida

This flock of five sheep, Nouveaux Moutons, by the

Melbourne

One of the highlights of Mossgreen’s sale of Decorative

Paris

Among a handful of pieces of Gallé French art glass

Welsh Wizardry

Held several times a year, the all-Cymru affair has

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

May 2*@ 42-lot Comic Section, Astons - Dudley 01384

Park life suits decorative dealers

Event organisers keep an eye on what is in vogue for interior design and adjust accordingly

Town with Molière link plays its grand fair part

Described as one of the quiet glories of southern France

Norman’s glass conquest

A selling exhibition at the National Glass Fair on

Brighton news in brief

Love Fairs is at Brighton Racecourse this Sunday, May

Weak pound is good flea news

Alan Wilkinson is in a good position to assess the

Saleroom news

Around the auction houses

Car’s the star in extension tale

It wasn’t so much a Road to Damascus moment for Edward

Stamford estate of play a year later

Just over a year since its launch, Stamford Auction

Debut medals sale for new Baldwin’s unit

Networking is far more than a good chinwag. As Baldwin’s

Then & now

A lot described simply as “a quantity of 19th century

African art at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s is holding its first dedicated Modern and

ATG’s family value

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