Consultation launched for Portobello’s five-year plan

Churchill enjoys finest hour in the saleroom

Sir Winston Churchill’s (1874-1965) ever more towering

Fairs make welcome return to calendar

Fair organisers are now planning for the spring and

Police probe provenance of Meiji ivories

Police are investigating the provenance of a collection

Compton Verney in miniature after Grantchester bequest

A group of portrait miniatures has been gifted to the

Budget grants as shops and centres reopen

New grants will be available for people reopening shops

Bonhams to conduct Keverne sale

Bonhams is to auction the remaining stock of the long-established

Patricia Harvey (1928-2021)

Dealer and fair founder Patricia Harvey has died.

Pick of the week: Chieftain’s fashion statement is all the rage 2000 years later

This copper alloy and champleve enamel brooch would

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Missing barometer brought back to life

A Surrey clockmaker has made a replica of a celebrated

Precious metals

On Friday, March 5, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News in Brief

The dealer Annie Marchant (1951-2020) collected everything

Value judgment

With classic watches usually priced in five or six figures, it is worth discovering the less well-known brands and especially those from the 1980s, as a specialist tells Roland Arkell

Go electronic at three figures

Introduced in 1960, the Bulova Accutron 214 (right)

Monte Carlo marvel

The Oysterdate Monte Carlo series were the first chronographs

Taste of adventure

The Sotheby’s New York (26% buyer’s premium) sale on

The ‘Tuna can’ timepiece

This rare 1940s Longines British military issue is

Rolex rolls on as a market favourite

Unrestored models and more selling for top results

Prototype Explorer that aimed for peak perfection

Rolex made the reference 6150 Oyster Perpetual Explorer

Grima and Omega – the About Time partnership

At the peak of his fame in the 1969, the Anglo-Italian

Furniture from across centuries

Traditional 18th century styles rub shoulders with stand-out Modern design in regional sales

‘Diamond King and the King of Siam’

This eye-catching 19th century Ceylonese ebony and

Paradise found but not at silver price level

If the famous image of the Milton Shield by Elkington

Birley moves past the formalilites

Traditional high-society portrait finds modern-day fans including an overseas buyer

Talmage catches bidders’ attention

Algernon Mayow Talmage (1871-1939) is probably not

Beyond Beale to Bratby and Irish scenery

The first fine art sale of 2021 held at Reeman Dansie

Thomas Hardy under review

One 1870s work that was hated by the Spectator magazine critic, the other hailed

From my good friend Baden-Powell

Contained in an old buckram folder, a collection of

Heroic price at 10 times top estimate

Given a modest estimate of £100-150 in a January 3

British and Irish book auctions

Mar 9* 106-lot Book & Map Sections, Capes

Previews

Our weekly selection from salerooms

Artist Hennell hailed as a genius

Dealer Sim rates this little-known painter so highly he calls him ‘the English Van Gogh’

Cooper springs back into action

West Country-based fair organiser Cooper Events is

James joins the fifty line-up

Little is known about the life of British artist William

5 Questions

A specialist in early European sculpture and works

Trade tastes a virtual slice of the Big Apple

Without the usual January influx of collectors, curators

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

The gavel go-ahead

Auction houses are getting back to normal for this latest staging of the annual New York Asian art spotlight, although new import taxes are having an effect, as Roland Arkell and Anne Crane report

Dealers take part in New York events from across the Atlantic

While plenty of Asian auctions are taking place for

Huanghuali hits the sale heights

Anglo-Chinese furniture stars as early American auctions produce numerous big results

Loir on the beach

This oil on board by the French artist Luigi Loir (1845-1916)

Lagerfeld’s mirror

A mid-20th century mirror by the French designer and

Choc full of treats

Hindman is holding an auction of Literature from a

Philip Marlowe debut

This first edition, first printing of Raymond Chandler’s

The original and authoritative sales listing

This is a calendar of art, antiques and general auctions

Artist’s Resale Right

Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette may mention

On your marks, get set to go

Roadmap means reopening time is getting closer at last but some hurdles remain

There’s Norway this dealer will be missing out

Adrian Gilmour, co-owner of the Hungerford Arcade

With full farce

Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks in Kensington Church

Appel of my eye

MADAM – This week while reading my ATG (No 2481) I

Yes, an ‘antiques council’ is exactly what the trade needs

MADAM – Re: ‘What’s really needed is a broader antiques

Obituary – Patricia Harvey (1928-2021)

It is with great sadness we announce the death of Patricia

My early lessons in the tricks of the trade

MADAM – This might be the moment to attempt to cap

Poorly paid, hard work, but this ‘constantly changing museum’ was also a lot of fun

MADAM – Martin Levy’s and Christopher Howe’s letters

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