Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2460 trading as Auction Technology Group Ltd Read top stories every day on our website antiquestradegazette.com auctiontechnologygroup.com Find us on: Follow us on Twitter Chief Executive Officer John-Paul Savant Chief Operating Officer Richard Lewis @ATG_Editorial Find us on: Publishing Director Matt Ball Editor-at-Large Noelle McElhatton Deputy Editor, News Laura Chesters Deputy Editor, Features & Supplements Roland Arkell In The News page 4-5 Hardstone is Commissioning Editor Anne Crane Chief Production Editor Tom Derbyshire Una and the Lion proof set returns easy sell Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Planning change threat to Portobello A pietra dura clock Reporter Frances Allitt and other gems Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall Iraq veteran’s Military Cross sold from a Fife house Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor page 16 SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES News Digest page 8-9 Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 Includes our pick of the week [email protected] picture by Gail McGuffie EDITORIAL +44 (0)20 3725 5520 Previews page 12-13 [email protected] ADVERTISING +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Auction Reports [email protected] AUCTION ADVERTISING HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 Contents from Balcarres House page 16-17 [email protected] NON-AUCTION ADVERTISING BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 [email protected] The huge Description de l’Egypte page 24-25 CLASSIFIED Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Petworth’s masked ball [email protected] Post-War & Contemporary INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING A special report from the Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 An accessible guide to the current auction and Petworth Park Antiques Fair [email protected] retail scene in this vibrant market page 26-48 Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 page 57 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Coins page 52-55 & FAIRS AND MARKETS ADVERTISING Rachel Tolley +44 (0)20 3725 5606 [email protected] Dealers’ Diary ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 The Petworth Park Antiques Fair page 57 Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES UK Auction Calendar page 58-63 This product is produced from sustainably managed forests and controlled International Events page 64-71 sources. 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Sign up today for free and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 26 September 2020 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2460.indd 1 18/09/2020 13:36:48 WWAdFREE Design ATG 244x335mm bleed.qxp_Layout 1 15/09/2020 15:28 Page 1 ARTS & CRAFTS DESIGN TUESDAY 6TH WEDNESDAY 7TH OCTOBER 2020 AT 10AM OCTOBER 2020 AT 10AM A good Martin Brothers stoneware bird jar and cover A Vistosi Pulcino glass bird designed by Alessandro Pianon Estimate £20,000­30,000* Estimate £4,000­6,000* Viewing by appointment only ENQUIRIES Michael Jeffery +44 (0)1722 424505 [email protected] 51­61 Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3SU www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk *Visit woolleyandwallis.co.uk/buying for additional charges on final hammer price LIVE PAGE 003 2460.indd 1 17/09/2020 15:35:27 News Fabled Una and the Lion proof set returns to auction Market proof by Roland Arkell coin and ending with the Choice specimens of the rarest penny, half penny and farthing. English coins are reaching new A celebrated Una and the Lion However, bidders will then be financial territory. proof set minted in the first given the opportunity to This Queen Anne (1702-1714) year of Queen Victoria’s reign keep the set together by five guineas piece from 1705 sold returns to auction next exceeding the aggregate for £220,000 (estimate £100,000- month. price of the eight lots. The 120,000) to top the Stratos The 1839 set of 15 coins - 11 top bidder will receive the collection of English gold coins of them the finest formally original box. sold by Spink on September 15. graded examples of their kind The last 1839 proof set sold At the time of the Whetmore - was last sold by Baldwin’s in at auction – one in a private dispersal in 1943, the 1705 Five London in 2015 for a record collection since February 1938 Guineas piece was thought of £420,000. It comes for sale on when it had been bought at as a ‘proof’ striking and deemed October 29 at the MDC Spink for £37 – took £220,000 more valuable than the renowned numismatic auction in Monte at Dix Noonan Webb in 2017. 1703 Vigo issue (see left). Carlo. However, more spectacular This example, graded by NGC The most notable coin in the sums have been paid for MS62+ ‘Proof Like’, had last been set is the famous Una and the individual coins from the set. sold by Stack’s Bowers Galleries Lion gold £5 pattern - among In the same month, Baldwin’s in New York in January 2012 the most beautiful and most- of St James’s set a new record for $43,709 ($54,625 including wanted of all milled coins. for a British five pounds piece premium). The obverse displays the when a ‘good, extremely fine’ The Stratos collection coupled famous ‘young head’ portrait Above: the three gold coins and the eight silver coins in the 1839 example of the 1839 Una and with the Ennismore collection of of Victoria by William Wyon proof set for sale on October 29 at the MDC numismatic auction in the Lion coin took £340,000. Anglo-Saxon and Viking coinage, while the reverse portrays her Monte Carlo are the finest known and graded examples. Pictured The current auction record provided Spink with ‘a once in a in full coronation regalia as here is the gold Una and the Lion £5 coin and the silver crown that for a British coin was set in blue moon auction’. Una leading the lion. It has the will carry guides of €500,000 and €40,000 respectively. New York in January 2019 Together the 321 lots took legend based on Psalm 119:133 when a 1703 Vigo five guineas over six hours to sell generating Dirige Deus Gressus Meos (May piece sold at $900,000 more than £3m with only one God Direct My Steps). finest by two points of 32 Wilkinson in 1856 (a cutting (£703,000) at a sale conducted lot failing to sell. “We are examples graded by NGC. from the 1856 sale catalogue is by Baldwin’s of St James’s. at a crossroads where the Top graded coins Before its sale five years ago, glued to the base of the box). A price of £1m was paid veteran collector meets the This example, graded Proof 66 this set was family-owned for There is a chance it will now early this year by a private technologically savvy investor Ultra Cameo by the decades – probably acquired be split. The coins will be collector for a 1937 Edward resulting in explosive auction Numismatic Guaranty soon after it was sold for 10 offered first as eight separate VIII trial sovereign in a deal results,” said Spink. Corporation (NGC), is the guineas at Leigh Sotheby and lots – beginning with the £5 negotiated by the Royal Mint. Early English sea atlas among real sales at ‘virtual’ book fair An English translation of a Dutch England, and the atlas, as well as 16th century sea atlas was being the first printed sea atlas, among the standout sales at the was the first book to standardise recent online edition of Firsts: symbols of buoys and beacons. London’s Rare Book Fair, writes The volume in question was Frances Allitt. published by J Charlewood Noted Dutch golden age of London in 1588. The folio cartographer Lucas Janszoon includes an engraved coat of Waghenaer (c.1534-c.1606) arms for Sir Christopher Hatton. released his first publication It sold for £150,000 from Spieghel der zeevaerdt in 1584. Daniel Crouch Rare Books at this It combined an atlas of nautical year’s second online staging of charts and sailing directions Firsts. with instructions for navigating The book fair, run by the European coastal waters and Antiquarian Booksellers’ was an immediate success. Association, usually has one An English translation, physical staging per year in June. The mariner’s mirrour, was This year it was called off due Above: Daniel Crouch Rare Books sold this English commissioned by the Lord to coronavirus and went virtual, translation of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer’s Spieghel der Chancellor Sir Christopher with this most recent second zeevaerdt at Firsts earlier this month, where it was offered Hatton in 1587. The maps are edition running online from for £150,000. It has an engraved coat of arms for Sir some of the earliest engraved in September 10-14. Christopher Hatton. 4 | 26 September 2020 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 001,004,005 2460.indd 2 18/09/2020 13:02:11 News Planning changes threaten Portobello shops hedging our bets.