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Looking for the birds
Hertfordshire UK - At this years Salvo Fair look out for Guy Trench's latest reuse design. He has been making lamps from interesting old objects found at markets for many years, mainly using sports and hunting memorabilia. Taking reuse to another level, a granite base incorporating old binoculars has been teamed with a parchment paper lampshade covered in the feathers of guinea fowl, partridge, and pheasant. The feathers are salvaged by a business in Norfolk and handmade into lampshades.
Salvo Fair
Antiques By Design
Positive attitude at Ronsons
A large timber framed Pagoda, arched gothic style windows and doorway, zinc and copper roof, sold for £6,800 to a local private (est £5k-£8k)
Gloucestershire UK - The auction at Ronson Reclaim by Brightwells on 6th May 2010 resulted in around half the lots being sold. There was a good turnout of bidders on the day and the top lot was a reclaimed garden pagoda which sold locally for £6,800, followed by a Portland stone fountain basin which sold for £2,000 to the USA. Ron Jones, owner and founder of Ronsons, said that the sale was a success and he definitely wanted do another next year.
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Chair belonging to assassinated Prime Minister for sale
London UK - A chair in which Britain's only assassinated Prime Minister lay dying is to be sold at a London antiques fair next month. Spenser Perceval collapsed into the carved mahogany Windsor armchair situated in the House of Commons after being shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, a failed merchant. It followed a dreadful 221 days in power amidst severe economic depression.
The George II chair, made in the 1740s, is being sold for £95,000 by 18th century English furniture specialists Apter-Fredericks. It will be shown at the Masterpiece Fair at the former Chelsea Barracks site in London from 24 to 29 June.
Daily Telegraph
The Brooking Collection is at risk
An initial £20,000 must be raised as a matter of urgency to fund the costs of moving the first phase of the Collection to a safe place pending the move to its new home.
Donate to the Brooking Collection
Letter about eBay from an ATG reader
The Antiques Trade Gazette, 15 May 2010 printed an interesting letter from one its readers voicing their concerns about buying from eBay and questioning the morals of some sellers who were offering goods on eBay which they did not even own.
Full letter
Masco sponsors 'Lions of Bath'
Artist Jacqui Harrison with lion “Frank”, set to be part of this summer’s “Lions of Bath” project. [pict. Devon 24]
Bath UK - Jacqui Harrison is one of 100 artists who have been commissioned to decorate a life-size fiberglass lions for the 'Lions of Bath' project sponsored by local businesses. Ms Harrison's lion affectionately named 'Frank' is sponsored by Masco. The lions will go on display around Bath until the end of the summer when they will be auctioned off for charity
Devon 24
Italy adopts USA's LEED scheme
Italy - The GBC Italia and the US Green Building Council have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a partnership between the two organisations. Italy are the first European country to adopt the USA's LEED green building standards rating scheme, which includes the reuse of reclaimed materials.
edie
Liverpool church is flattened
[Pict. Save Britain's Heritage]
Liverpool UK - The landmark St John and St James Edwardian church in Liverpool was demolished at the end of April. Allegedly a victim of a deal struck between the Diocese of Liverpool and a property developer. Prior to demolition the the furnishings and fittings of the church were stripped out and sold at auction.
Save Britain's Heritage
Save Bootle's Heritage
Bidder non grata
USA - Internet entrepreneur Halsey Minor plans to auction off his art collection at Phillips de Pury & Co. in New York next week for at least $21 million, but he does not plan to head to any of the larger auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's to make new purchases as he is 'bidder non grata' at these two auction houses.
The Wall Street Journal
The Hawkins Zoomorphic Collection at Harris Lindsay
Rare diorama of a squirrel boxing match. English circa 1870 [pict. Harris Lindsay]
London, UK - Harris Lindsay of 67 Jermyn Street, London will be hosting the Hawkins Zoomorphic Collection, prior to its sale, at an 'Exhibition of the Rare and Exotic'. The collection was formed over a period of more than forty years by two generations of one family. Open from 2 June - 26 June 2010, 10am - 6pm.
Harris Lindsay
Reuse of the week
Human hair to tackle oil spill
Making one of the oil spill hair booms [pict. BBC News]
Human hair and fur stuffed in tights is the new contraption to tackle the oil spewing from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico. Hair possesses a unique characteristic which means that oil clings to the many tiny scales on each strand.
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Gaze Next Auction
22 May 2010
Vintage Interiors & Textile
Fairs
25 - 29 May 2010
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London
25 - 27 June 2010
Salvo Fair
Architectural salvage, antique garden ornament, reclaimed building material, recraft, bygones, and decorative antiques from the UK and Europe.
Knebworth, Herts
Book Today! Tel. 01225422300
For regular fairs such as Newark and Lincoln please see the SalvoWEB calendar
Auctions
22 May 2010
Gaze Vintage Interiors & Textiles
Roydon Road, Diss Norfolk
Viewing Thursday prior 2pm - 8pm, Friday 10am - 5pm, sale morning from 8.30am. Tel. 01379 650306 Fax. 01379 644313
26 May 2010
Garden Sculpture & Architectural Ornaments - The Piet Jonker Collection
Sotheby's Amsterdam
26 May 2010
Garden Statuary and Fossil Decoration Sale
Walled Garden, Summers Place Auctions, Stane Street, Billingshurst, W Sussex RH14 9AB. Tel:01403 331331
Exhibitions & Events
6 March - 4 July 2010
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Rd, London
This will be the first major exhibition on Horace Walpole, the most important English collector of the eighteenth century, and will bring together many of his most remarkable objects.
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