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by Christopher Proudlove�Espa�ol | Deutsche | Fran�ais | Italiano | Portugu�s

One of the joys of collecting is talking to other collectors, so it was a pleasure to receive an e-mail this week from someone in Bala who wanted advice about a rather smart antique pottery jug. That’s Bala, Ontario, not the lakeside village in North […]

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In his heyday Cheshire’s Rushton Mac was acclaimed as the best English-bred greyhound ever. Having achieved a trio of victories in the English, Welsh and Scottish Derbies; recorded wins in 14 successive races and posted five track records, the description was beyond doubt.
Now, 50 years later, the […]

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They stand ranged around the walls of our new living room like ranks of drunken soldiers each relying on the other to stop them falling flat on their faces. How long it will take before we pluck up the courage to start hanging our pictures- […]

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As a 13-year-old schoolgirl, Lynne Peters couldn’t believe her luck when a backstage helper sneaked her and her sister into the back of the theatre to watch The Beatles play live on stage.
When he came back after the show with a photograph signed by each of […]

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Rare Steiff Teddy bear is star of Christmas collectors’ saleThe little boys looked forward to family trips from their home in Vienna to visit their three aunts in Düsseldorf, but not necessarily to see the matronly trio with their smothering hugs and embarrassing kisses.
Instead, the visits meant […]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português

There are two certainties in life: death and taxes. It’s an oft repeated truism, but I’d like to add a third: selling one’s possessions — as often as not the result of the other two.
But as I’m learning myself — and, I might add, to […]

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Heard the one about the auctioneer and the Punk Princess? Read Artnet’s report of Phillips’ sale of contemporary art owned by this German aristocrat who married in to the wealth […]

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They were either muddle-headed eccentrics or else hard-nosed entrepreneurs but the art potters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had the same aim: at a time when new techniques and advances in machine technology made mass-produced pottery a reality, they sought to maintain […]

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The big money was out in New York on Tuesday evening when Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist paintings raised a total of $130.1 million. The Christie’s sale on Tuesday night totalled […]

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Punch the name Lea Stein into eBay and there are currently 188 of the Paris designer’s funky celluloid brooches up for sale. And that’s part of the problem. Can they really all be real?
The problem with eBay is that you’re on your own with only […]

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