5 Questions

Crossrail chaos claims Grays Mews

Owner seeks new site as costs and footfall put paid to Mayfair centre

TEFAF takes first e-commerce steps

TEFAF is to trial its own online selling platform at

Fair sales

The set of four silver-gilt candlesticks, right, priced

‘Swing from old to new’ evident in SLAD survey

The number of art dealers specialising in modern and

Borwick outlines ivory ban view

Europe needs greater consistency in rules around the

Pick of the Week: Riding the £23,000 Brompton omnibus

A highlight of Sworders’ Country House sale in Stansted

Bid Barometer – issue 2299

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First in the fight for charity shop find

For more than 10 years after its donation, this Suffragette

News In Brief

The Leeds branch of Bonhams has moved to a new office

Testing the metal

Our jewellery special starts with a focus on contemporary designers whose wares appear at auction, in particular a partnership between Michele della Valle and Sotheby’s

Giuliano in India

Indian design was a prolific influence in Carlo Giuliano’s

Agate’s growing appeal

Dendritic agate – a pale chalcedony with treelike inclusions

Final flowering for Garden Museum

The collection of Tiffany jewels offered by Christie’s

Get ahead in the East with a tiara

Tiaras have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent

A cluster of Nossiter results

Bonhams’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale in Knightsbridge

Telling tales from Farouk to Thatcher

Stealing all the headlines at Sotheby’s (25/20/12%

Love detected in the East Riding

This medieval gold posy ring with a Lombardic inscription

Fellows

The July 13 sale at Fellows in Birmingham includes

Sworders

This gold and enamel brooch bearing the cypher of Queen

Hansons

A 15th century gold heart-shaped brooch, a medieval

Woolley & Wallis

The familiar idiom ‘pigs might fly’ is apparently derived

New York state of mind

Ahead of the autumn sale of a star lot, Laura Chesters hears why the time is right for Phillips to expand its US watch business

British jewels shine in Cirencester

Collections showing the influence of Burne-Jones and Constable on offer in Gloucestershire

Northern artist’s street view Down South

A London street view by the northern English artist

Girl power fuels demand for drawing and etching in Kent

Girl power fuels demand for drawing and etching in

Textbook keeps up with the times

First printed edition of an ancient Greek work which still influences scientific publications

Frogs and toads, fairy tales and fantasies from illustrators

Last offered at auction at Parke-Bernet in New York

Irish interest for Joyce and O’Brien

Promoted in a catalogue issued by Fonsie Mealy (20/25%

Why three Thomases are better than one

Tres Thomae…, by Thomas Stapleton, a leading Catholic

Wounds book makes the cut

This rather unsettling woodcut illustration, an almost

First mention of Poirot detected

Agatha Christie’s books were much in evidence at a

Simply the breast: deluxe Duchamp

Art books in a Ketterer Kunst (20% buyer’s premium)

A lot that should jog the memory

One of the odder lots I have stumbled across in the

Up to £500

Decorated by Charles Ferdinand Hurten (1822- 1901)

£501 - £2000

A large collection of clocks owned by a West Country

£2001 - £5000

This 17th century English tin-glazed earthenware model

£5001 - £30,000

A clutch of oil paintings by Cornish artist Fred Yates

£30,000 plus

AD Antiques, run by British art pottery specialist

Labours of love from fieldwork

Painter who fled London to create country scenes is now the subject of a Holborn show

Folk sits comfortably with contemporary

Robert Young, the folk art dealer in Battersea, London

Shop talk

Messingham Farm Shop & Café

European union is revived…

Whitford Fine Art’s ongoing exhibition Trans-Channel

Music and dance make impromptu performance

Kevis House Gallery’s exhibition Impromptu features

…and now a Franco-Brit alliance

Browse & Darby’s ongoing exhibition of British

Why the Blairman bunch do like to be beside the seaside

Furniture and works of art dealer Martin Levy took

Picture reveals hammer history

One of the paintings sold at the busy Drouot auction centre depicts a sale back in 1876

D-Day relics fly high in US sales

The 22½ x 20in (57 x 51cm) map was dated June 6, 1944

Beatles memorabilia keeps it reel at auction

A well-provenanced collection of Beatles and other

Mr Cooper and Wibbly-Wobbly

Like many who deal in antiques, the late dealer Andrew

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Jul 5 Books, MSS & Prints, Brightwells - Leominster

Wander through a Welsh county

Carmarthenshire comes under the spotlight thanks to brocante trail and a couple of fairs

Fair organiser is king of the castle photos

At Towy Fairs’ May event, organiser Robert Pugh offered

Pair of Belgian treats in Brussels and Bruges

The Brussels Vintage Market was launched in 2010 at

Cinema venue for vintage

A vintage, salvage and artisan market with lots of

Grenfell fundraiser launch

A festival to help raise funds for the victims of the

Going potty at Welsh fair

This image of a fine coppered pot, right, was taken

What a week it was…

Our round-up of London’s high season of art and antiques sales as seen on social media

Obituary

David Newell-Smith, who together with wife Sonya ran