Pot Lid Out, Wally Bird in Owners Epiris in 2016
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To print, your print settings should be ‘fit to page size’ or ‘fit to printable area’ or similar. Problems? See our guide: https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2507 | antiquestradegazette.com | 4 September 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D koopman rare art V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY 12 Dover Street, W1S 4LL [email protected] | www.koopman.art | +44 (0)20 7242 7624 Robert Brooks: the boss who built the Bonhams brand by Alex Capon in 2010. He always looked up to his father, naming the new lecture theatre at Bonhams Former chairman of New Bond Street in his honour Bonhams Robert Brooks in 2005. has died aged 64 after a He opposed guarantees Among the highlights two-year battle with (although did occasionally use of the Alan Blakeman cancer. them later on) and challenged collection to be sold Having started his own Sotheby’s and Christie’s to by BBR Auctions on classic car saleroom, Brooks follow Bonhams’ example of September 11 is this Auctioneers, at the age of 33, introducing separate client shop display pot lid. he bought Bonhams 11 years accounts for vendors’ funds. Blakeman was pictured with later before merging it with Never lacking a competitive it on the cover of the programme Phillips in 2001. He streak, Brooks had left school produced for the first UK Summer subsequently expanded the as a teenager to briefly become National fair in 1985 (above). firm’s international presence a racing driver. Cars would before bowing out in 2018 after remain a key part of his selling the company to current personal and professional life. Pot lid out, wally bird in owners Epiris in 2016. His start in the auction world came when he worked as Advertising and antique bottle supremo Alan Gosnell & Co cherry toothpaste. It was featured Auctions pedigree a porter at CSK while it was Blakeman of BBR Auctions discovered this alongside a youthful Blakeman on the cover of A tall and imposing figure – he headed by his father. Before massive 18½in (45cm) diameter pot lid back in the programme produced for the first UK Summer was described as having the long he was promoted to the the early 1980s. National bottle and advertising fair in 1985 and bearing of a Grenadier motoring department under Blakeman said: “A couple walked up to the became something of a symbol of the Elsecar Guardsman – auctioneering Patrick Lindsay and became BBR stall at a show at the Adams Social Club in Bottle Museum after it opened in 1991. had been in his blood. He was the firm’s youngest auctioneer. Leek and asked if I bought pot lids. Not wishing Blakeman, who began acquiring bottles in the son of Bill Brooks, the After becoming a director of to leave my table, I suggested they brought it his teens, is to sell much of his own collection founder of Christie’s South the department (and later from the car to show me, to which they replied via an auction in Elsecar on September 11. He Kensington (CSK), who died joining the main board), he ‘no it’s too big’. told ATG that most of the collection has been in helped launch sales in Monaco. “As it happened to be my birthday I feared storage. Having become frustrated at this may be a practical joke, but when the boot “Time and again my daughter has said ‘Dad Christie’s and with designs on was opened there was a gobsmackingly large you need to sort it all out’. Thus was born the his own venture, he launched exhibition pot lid – as dug, complete with sale which has enabled me to fulfil a lifetime classic car firm Brooks Sellotape to the damage.” dream of owning a Martin Brothers wally bird”. Auctioneers in 1989. Such lids (only four are known) were made as The promotional lid is estimated at Despite a collapse in classic shop window promotional pieces for Victorian £2000-3000. Left: the car prices at around this time, retailers who agreed to stock 100 tubs of Roland Arkell late Robert Brooks. 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Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 4 September 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2507.indd 1 27/08/2021 15:09:04 Upcoming Auctions Travel & Exploration Montpelier Street, London | 14 September Fine Books & Manuscripts Montpelier Street, London | 15 September Instruments of Science & Technology Montpelier Street, London | 15 September Bid at Bonhams auctions on ENQUIRIES THE STEPHEN EDELL COLLECTION thesaleroom.com and enjoy +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 OF POCKET AND TABLE GLOBES 0% online commission. bonhams.com Estimates ranging from £1,000 to £15,000 * Off ered in the Instruments of Science & Technology sale * For details of the charges payable in addition to the fi nal hammer price, please visit bonhams.com/buyersguide PAGE 003 2507.indd 2 26/08/2021 15:42:01 News We need a St James’s association, says Franses by Laura Chesters Right: the years. A Supreme Court ruling Buckingham FRICS enough.” premises of S ordered the landlord to grant a Lawyer David Cooper said: Franses in St new lease (in 2018) and in “This case was a monumental Plans for a new association to James’s. August presiding Judge Parfitt decision and hugely significant protect the interests of art and ordered the landlord because rents were reduced by antiques dealers in St James’s Capitaland to pay the costs of 50% in Jermyn Street. in central London are under the High Court case. “It will make it more way after textile dealer affordable for galleries in the S Franses succeeded in Long battle area and will cause a major stir winning the costs of its recent Franses, whose new lease both in St James’s and across high court case. begins in October 2021, said: the wider West End. No one The firm’s Simon Franses Mall, Green Park and to work with others and create “This long battle has run for six believed we could do this and engaged in a six-and-a-half Haymarket.