Antiques Trade Gazette 25-02-26

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Wednesday 26 February 2025
Midweek briefing for buyers and sellers of art & antiques

Tribal art
Sleeper: Striking mask from central Africa flies to 170 times estimate
A highly stylised mask drew international competition at an auction in Salisbury. READ MORE

Rediscovery
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Letter outlining plea for support smashes predictions
An autograph letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie was among a group of Jacobite relics discovered among a wide array of antiques during a Georgian townhouse clearance. READ MORE

UK
Early photography: Photograph archive offers snapshot of early 20th century Shanghai
Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed. READ MORE

Medals
Second World War: Victoria Cross equivalent awarded to Tommy the pigeon appears at Carlisle sale
Tommy nearly made the supreme sacrifice to support the Allied cause in the Second World War. READ MORE

Art market
Portraits: British people pics bring benefits in Berkshire
A series of British portraits offered across two different Dreweatts sales got the new year off to a good start at the Newbury saleroom. READ MORE

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Asia Week New York celebrates its 16th birthday READ MORE
Epsom fair on course for Sundays READ MORE
Books and works on paper auction calendar READ MORE
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