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Left: Portrait of Napoleon by Andrea Appiani, c.1800 – estimate £40,000- 60,000 at Bonhams on October 27.

Above, l to r: Napoleon’s stockings (€21,500/£18,700), his shirt (€80,000/£69,600) and items including a ‘strip stained with his blood during his autopsy’ (€27,000/£23,500), all sold at Osenat on May 6. Napoleon: great for sales at least

Bicentenary of Caribbean and Indian Ocean.Marking when 200 years ago the former emperor private collections and was sold at the bicentenary of the emperor’s death, died in exile on St Helena. Sotheby’s in 2008. A pair of Napoleon’s his death boosts French President Emmanuel Macron last Items that belonged to Napoleon or woven stockings in red dyed silk made week said slavery was a grave mistake, had an intimate connection brought € 21,500/£18,700 (estimate demand for relics while highlighting the “genius” of a man signi!cant interest. €8000-12,000). who “is a part of us”. A shirt he owned had been estimated Another intriguing item, sold for Whatever your opinion, in collecting at €30,000-40,000 but sold at €27,000/£23,500 (guide €10,000- by Tom Derbyshire terms the name Napoleon stands for €80,000/£69,600 (plus 25% buyer’s 15,000), was a small white silk bag with high demand and prices. This premium). At the top of the opening of a note from the Duke of Bassano dated In France, Napoleon’s reputation and anniversary year in particular has the right side is embroidered the famous October 20, 1875, stating it “contains legacy remain the subject of debate. inspired auction houses and dealers to mark N under the imperial crown in red the hair of H.M. the Emperor Napoleon Some see him as a great military hold sales and exhibitions. silk thread. This shirt comes from I, a handkerchief, marked with his leader and founder of the modern French One of the most extensive auctions Genappe where it would have been number, belonging to him and a strip state, others focus on a dictator who was held on May 6 by Osenat in Fon- taken after Waterloo by Carl, Baron von reintroduced slavery to islands in the tainebleau – a day after May 5, the date Plotho (1780-1820). It had been in Continued on page 4

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Right: Going Sheppard’s, Durrow, Co Laois, to the Match April 29 by LS Lowry Six bentwood chairs and glass- – estimate topped dining table by Joseph £2m-3m at Most read Walsh (b.1979), purchased from Sotheby’s the artist’s studio in 2001. on June 29. Estimate: €40,000-60,000 The most viewed stories for Hammer: €60,000 (£51,200) week April 29-May 4 on antiquestradegazette.com

1 The ‘barn !nd’ Charterhouse, Sherborne, May 5 coming in at 26ft long Late Victorian shepherd’s hut of – and now up at traditional design on metal auction wheels, for full restoration. Lowry rugby work rugby known to have been 2 A painted chest from Estimate: £800-1200 drops in to auction executed by the artist. the ‘untouched’ Hammer: £13,000 The picture had remained in contents of a LS Lowry’s (1887-1976) Going the same family since 1972 and Somerset country to the Match is coming to auction it has been exhibited only once house next month at Sotheby’s in before (in 1966). Estimated at London. It dates from 1928 and £2m-3m, it will go on show in 3 Benin plaque Sotheby’s said it is among the New York, Edinburgh and withdrawn from sale earliest known of Lowry’s Dublin before a preview at 4 Rare $2m Meissen Dawsons, Maidenhead, April 29 depictions of a sporting Sotheby’s New Bond Street collection restituted occasion and one of only a from June 22 ahead of the June Tiffany & Co glass and gilt bronze to Jewish family mounted standard lamp stamped Tiffany small handful of paintings of 29 sale. comes to market in Studios, New York, 1927. New York Estimate: £3000-5000 5 Changes at the top at Hammer: £9800 Two of The Few: Battle Phillips and Sotheby’s of Britain medal groups Fine Art division HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE Medal groups awarded to two of The Few – the heroic RAF and Fleet Air Arm pilots of the – are on offer at auction Hotlotz, Singapore, timed sale ended May 2 this month. Republican-era blue and white The highest-estimated group, guided porcelain landscape plaque in the at £120,000-160,000 by Gloucestershire In Numbers manner of Wang Bu, 16 x 12in saleroom Dominic Winter on May 20, (45 x 30cm) in hardwood frame. comprises honours including CBE, DSO, Estimate: Sin$300-500 DFC and Bar (and logbooks) awarded to Air Hammer: Sin$200,000 (£108,700) Commodore Peter Malam ‘Pete’ Brothers $150,000 (1917-2008), pictured right. He few 875 operational hours and is The price (£108,000) an credited with 16 aerial victories, 10 of which advertisement for a 1953 Hank he achieved during the Battle of Britain with 32 Squadron. Williams show in Ohio made at He had a relatively long career as a combat pilot, achieving Heritage in Dallas on his frst two kills in May 1940 during the and his May 1-2, setting a world record last in August 1944 when he shot down a Focke Wulf 190 over the for the most expensive concert River Loire. After rejoining the RAF in 1949, Brothers even few poster at auction. Found in operations during the Malayan Emergency of the 1950s. 1981 in a Canton, Ohio, barn, That sale follows a group of seven medals including a DSO it is one of only three known Hannam’s, Selborne, Hampshire, and bar and DFC being offered by London auction house Dix existing copies. Williams never May 4 Noonan Webb on May 19. Estimated at £30,000-40,000, they were made the concert – he died of Daoguang period famille rose porcelain awarded to RAF Group Captain Brian Kingcome a heart attack in the backseat plaque with temple scene, 20 x 14in (1917-94), pictured left. of a car en route, aged 29. The (50 x 36cm) in a hongmu frame. During the height of the Battle of Britain he concert still took place, as a Estimate: £200-300 led 92 Squadron with great success from Biggin tribute. Hammer: £17,000 Hill. Shot down and hospitalised in October East Bristol Auctions, May 4 1940, he returned to fy with the squadron Star Wars ‘prototype’ lightsaber for until appointed to command 72 Squadron in Darth Vader by Microfash Micro February 1942, leading them as the fghter Precision Products, from the escort of Eugene Esmonde VC’s Swordfsh estate of Dave Prowse. detachment for their ill-fated ‘’ action. Estimate: £80-120 One of the youngest group captains in the RAF, aged 25 Hammer: £9000 Kingcome commanded 244 (Spitfre) Wing, Desert Air Force, providing fghter support for the Eighth Army from Africa into and then through the campaign in . Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for April 29-May 5, 2021. ‘Highest multiple over top estimate’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer He destroyed a total of 11 enemy aircraft, probably destroyed a prices as a multiple of the high estimate paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com further fve and damaged 13. Tom Derbyshire ‘Top selling lots’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer prices paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com antiquestradegazette.com 15 May 2021 | 7 A PAIR OF LARGE TURQUOISE A PANERAI LUMINOR GOLD 8 A TIFFANY & CO. BANGLE BY A VACHERON CONSTANTIN AND DIAMOND EARRINGS DAYS POWER RESERVE ANGELA CUMMINGS TOLEDO 1952

LOT OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE ESTIMATE: $23,000 - $26,000 SGD LOT OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE ESTIMATE: $23,000 - $26,000 SGD

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A GIRARD-PERREGAUX WORLD INCLUDING AN ESTATE COLLECTION OF A 38 CARAT COLUMBIAN TIME CHRONOGRAPH JEWELLERY TO BE SOLD AT NO RESERVE EMERALD SINGLE STONE RING

ESTIMATE: $16,000 - $20,000 SGD - THE PROCEEDS GOING TO CHARITY - LOT OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE AND A SELECTION OF WATCHES FROM A NOTABLE PRIVATE COLLECTION

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SPECIAL TERMS FOR BUYERS FROM OUTSIDE SINGAPORE Hammer Price and 24% Buyer’s Premium are inclusive of 7% GST. A LARGE FIRE OPAL AND Hotlotz can remove all GST for buyers who are non-resident in A RARE GIRARD-PERREGAUX DIAMOND PENDANT Singapore, providing we manage the export and it is completed PLATINUM TOURBILLON within 60 days of the auction closing date. LOT OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE ESTIMATE: $75,000 - $90,000 SGD

A GIRARD-PERREGAUX VINTAGE A 5.24 CARAT HEART-SHAPED A CARTIER GOLD AND DIAMOND A LARGE TYPE-A JADE AND 1945 TRIPLE CALENDAR DIAMOND SINGLE STONE RING SANTOS 100 DIAMOND RING

ESTIMATE: $12,000 - $15,000 SGD LOT OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE ESTIMATE: $20,000 - $30,000 SGD LOT OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE

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