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Collectors are honing their expertise and learning about stones
Data suggest demand stabilising after years of volatility
Computing pioneer’s unseen manuscript
Challenging traditional auction houses, lending, and a media storm over a ‘flipper’
From polishing silver at Sotheby’s to managing director at Bonhams
Wealthy widows in New York; royal treatment in Abu Dhabi; postponement of FIAC Los Angeles inaugural fair
Buyers in Asia have shaken off superstitions about pre-owned jewellery
Move over Alexis Carrington, the 1980s-era jeweller is back – and the stones are bigger than ever
From a showing of decorative vases at Bonhams in London to an auction of photographs from the Art Institute of Chicago
The bowl, designed in 1918, is so simple it would later define the pared-back style of Danish Modern
China’s second biggest auction house is preparing an assault on the continent’s art market and has hired a Beijing-based French gallerist to help
Modernist designs from the mid 20th-century are the new saleroom stars
Jean Ghika’s valuations cast new light on old treasures
Stamp-selling institution wants to be the Amazon of collectables
Bonhams’ new building; contemporary art’s big names; Rocky’s hidden talents
Dinosaurs ‘locked in immortal combat’ set for private collection
Simon de Burton assesses the action on the saleroom floors
Buyers are happy to pay way over the odds for a stone with a history or exceptional features, says Maria Doulton
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