Stellar Sèvres at Bonhams

Royal Mint takes share in coin dealers

British institution grows interest in historic market with Sovereign tie

London says no to hallmarking overseas

The London Assay Office has spoken out against moves

Trade bodies to forge new relationships after election

The art and antiques trade associations are preparing

Editor’s comment

On Twitter last week, auctioneer and TV pundit Paul

Price comparison site for shipping

The New York-based art shipping firm Arta is in the

Pick of the Week: Lely’s young girl in high demand

An enticingly estimated drawing by the 17th century

Bid Barometer – issue 2297

From thesaleroom.com

De Morgan tiles fly in Wolverhampton

A group of five 8in (20cm) William de Morgan (1839-1917)

News In Brief

Bloomsbury Auctions is to continue to trade from its

The final mile

Delivery of art and antiques is highly competitive as suppliers vie to provide customers with a better, faster experience. But there are still complexities to iron out, not least expectations on cost

The latest moves

“The logistics sector in the art and antiques world

‘Everything could change’ with Brexit

Many who specialise in the movement of art and antiques

A Swell sale under new ownership

Skeaping sculpture record crowns £930,000 ‘selected contents’ auction in post-Gibbons era

Simmons blooms at £21,000

A carved wood sculpture by William G Simmonds (1876-1968)

Dolls’ house delights

Comprising what amounted to a crowded Regency household

Thornycroft’s New hero

Led by the 17th century Goan hardwood, ivory and bone

Collecting market fuels record Salisbury sale

Largely based on three private collections – and helped

Mod Brits stay robust in the regions

Picture sales showed highest results in a decade as single-owner collections get away

Flower power blooms in Oxford

A still-life by Dora Carrington (1893-1932) starred

Peruvian painter’s take on Venice

A tiny 19th century Venetian oil by Frederico del Campo

Early tastes of a Victorian bibliophile

Incunabula from the William O’Brien library returns to market for first time in over a century

Initial ideas on printing the Bible

Featuring over 70 decorative or historiated initials

Avicenna on metaphysics

Cleaned, restored and recently rebound in brown buckskin

First Fleet footsteps in the Australian continent

Written by Judge Advocate David Collins, secretary

Up to £500

A dedicated sale of Burmantofts faience pottery, billed

£501 - £2000

Over 250 camera lots will feature in British Bespoke

£2001 - £5000

On June 27, Holloway’s of Banbury will offer this c.1810-20

£5001 - £30,000

An oil by Victorian landscape painter George Augustus

£30,000 plus

This marble bust of Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) by

Widening the reach of Masterpiece

Luxury fair looks to broaden visitor appeal for eighth showing at Royal Chelsea Hospital

5 Questions

Barbara Chalk runs Rare and Antique Books, an online

Focus on the gallery for seven days of summer

London Art Week kicks off a host of events on June

Fame & promise at Bohun

In its ongoing exhibition, the Bohun Gallery includes

Traditional ‘POP’ art in Knightsbridge

Forget Michael Jackson and Madonna: this summer Timothy

Shop talk

Rippingales Antiques and Collectables

Maire’s take on ‘cultural’ Vietnam

A selection of drawings by the French painter-explorer

From America’s heartland

Leslie Hindman discusses the creation of an auction network centred in the Windy City

Paris – Binoche et Giquello

The tribal art auction to be held at Drouot by Binoche

Massachusetts

On July 13 Skinner will be selling the Victor &

Lisbon

This Chinese gilt-bronze figure of Guandi is the catalogue

Paris – Sotheby’s & Piasa

Alain Lesieutre was one of the dealers and authors

A bit on the racy side

“All art is erotic,” remarked the Austrian artist Gustav

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Jun 20*@ 39-lot Book Section, Wotton Auction Rooms

A Newark detour for US buyers

Stock-buying trips prove successful for one American as she heads back to Blighty once more

Potty about US vintage

The city of Council Bluffs is the seat of Pottawattamie

No Take Five @ Tolwort

John Slade of Take Five Fairs has regretfully had to

Be a dealer for a day

The Charing Cross Collectors’ Market, at the bottom

Brixton’s al fresco vibe

Every year in July the railings on tree-lined Josephine

Revamped vintage in Buriton

A quintessential English village is how Buriton, near

What you need to know about the ‘moral rights’ of an artist in law

What you need to know about the ‘moral rights’ of an

Churchill, his portrait and an ‘act of vandalism’

In the UK, a famous incident involved a portrait by

Here’s why we shell out for carved nautilus

MADAM – I’m late with my response to Terence Pike’s

All hail to the People’s letters page

MADAM – I find your letters page the most interesting

Then & now

News as reported from the ATG Archive

Obituary – James ‘Jim’ Collingridge (1930-2017)

My father, Jim Collingridge, FGA, DGA, former deputy