Shop talk – Bridport Antiques The Court, West Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3QU

Trio of firms rises from ashes of Mossgreen

Australia gains three new auction houses as specialists go it alone in Melbourne

Counsel says wait for ivory challenge

Trade bodies seeking to legally challenge the government’s

…as 2019 netsuke conference pulls out of London

The government’s imminent ivory law change has forced

Early club from a cellar in Fife becomes £26,000 seller in Lewes

Early club from a cellar in Fife becomes £26,000 seller

‘Masterpiece level’ 19th century art receives Christie’s rebrand

‘Masterpiece level’ 19th century art receives Christie’s

Hoffman clock strikes success in Rotterdam

Unmistakably the work of the Viennese avant-garde,

Trade seeks to add thresholds to cultural law

The antiquarian book trade is lobbying for changes

Pick of the Week Saint’s head sets a gold standard

A rare medieval gold head of a saint generated significant

Bid barometer

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Nelson watch kept the line on time at Trafalgar

A pocket watch worn by Lord Nelson during the Battle

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A nude portrait by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) painted

Final f licker of a Fulham dealer

Last selection of items for sale at auction from west London firm famous for salvage

All fired up at ‘more affordable’ prices

Bids of £100 and upwards bought bidders a history of

Desk style back in favour

An Edwardian Carlton House satinwood desk of the type

Tailor-made to fit into Liss selection

The Meissen model of Count Bruhl’s Tailor, left, was

Pouch returns home

Pitched at £100-150, this small North American Native

Medici marvel

From the same source which provided Sotheby’s success

Deco dancer

Art Deco bronze and ivory figures continue to do well

Good looker

It was catalogued as 19th century, with a replaced

Eastern hoard out of Cumbria

“The best piece in the sale,” enthused auctioneer Richard

Top Doulton demand evident in Evesham

In what can be a doleful time for Doulton, encouraging

Devon views are cream of the crop

Watercolour scenes on offer in Cambridge from collection assembled over several decades

Period portraits and equine oil study

The latest batch of period portraits to pass through

Late Victorians in time for Surrey sale

A good helping of late Victorian pictures featured

Henry Moore’s hands grip bidders in Glasgow

Like many artists, hands held a strong fascination

UNDER £1000

Three modestly valued works in regional sales

Wyndham wakes in Norfolk

Sci-fi classics, ghost stories and mysteries attract buyers to impressive local collection

Drewdunnit: cover story of a teenage sleuth

Dating from 1944, the ink, watercolour and gouache

Museum’s shipshape purchase

Running to just over a hundred pages and containing

Forum lays down the agricultural Lawes

Comprising some 3000 books that range in date from

Portrait of a beautiful world

From her Dorset cottage, artist and print-maker Rena

Previews: Up to £500

A collection of pottery made by Troika in St Ives and

Previews: £501 - £2000

Designed as a goldfish, this 1960s 18ct gold ruby,

Previews £2001 - £5000

Three large cased dioramas of exotic African birds

Previews£501 - £2000

This dynamic design by AM Cassandre (1901-68) advertising

Previews £30,000 plus

A Military Medal group won during one of the fiercest

Proud to be an Olde-timer

Clocks and barometers dealer prefers leisurely open weekends over fairs and the internet

Highlands, Lowlands, highlights

From lighthouses and ships in distress to labourers

5 Questions

Fabrizio Govi of Libreria antiquaria Alverto Govi (Italy)

Cooper takes contemporary view at 30

To celebrate 30 years in the business, Jonathan Cooper

Society lady shines in NY

A portrait of Miss Virginia Gammell, an Edwardian society

Old Masters fly high in Paris

The Paris high season is a time when classic sales

A chair to make bidders sit up

Ming piece sells for €2.6m in Stuttgart

Melbourne – Abacus Auctions

Newly formed Australian firm Abacus Auctions holds

Melbourne – Sotheby’s

Having successfully dispersed the collection of Lalique

Madrid

This portrait of Maria Luisa Maldonado, Marquesa de

British and Irish book auctions

Jul 3 Medieval & Renaissance MSS, Continental &

Artist’s Resale Right

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Bingley back under IACF umbrella

First IACF staging held of three-day Staffs event which takes place entirely under cover

Diss is not the end: shop shuts but showroom opens

The owner of an antiques shop in the Norfolk town of

Antiques dealers form new congregation in church

It’s always heartening to hear of redundant churches

Salvo organiser keeps busy

Thornton Kay, long-time organiser of the annual Salvo

Make a beeline for London

Designer Vicki Ambery-Smith is regularly selected to

Ivory: museum dilemma

MADAM – News that the British Museum is to accept the

Graham Gemmell

MADAM – We find the British Museum’s double-faced agreement

It’s not so simple

MADAM – I am writing to counter the simplistic view

Obituary – Paul Whitfield

Tributes have been paid to Paul Whitfield by Christie’s