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There is no author mentioned This happened 12 years ago and is being reported as news in 2024 Anyone who watches The Antiques Road Trip knows there have been bigger profits than this one since... STRANGE! Original story link here. A Vera Cummings portrait has been bid on in a UK auction by a kiwi bidder, and is reportedly coming back to NZ soon.
The work sold for $3,790 NZ (1,800 pounds) which is a great price for a work by the Thames born portrait artist who was a student of Goldie. The highest price for a painting by her is $37,600, sold at International Art Centre in 2020. Not all works are on-sold once repatriated, someone may have a new work to add to their personal collection. Read RNZ article here. Written by Maia Ingoe. A recent British Antiques Roadshow included an appraisal of this silver trench watch from WWI.
Inscribed "Gunner W Ballantine, 21st Regiment NZRA 1916" it was owned by a New Zealand soldier. An expat kiwi researched the name and found Mr William Ballantine lived in Invercargill. The soldier survived the war and died in 1975. If anyone knows anymore about Mr Ballantine contact mike.fallow@stuff.co.nz. Read Stuff article here. Here at Antique & Art, we will be taking a break from valuing from December 18th until January 29th 2024.
We need a bit of time to relax, refresh and spend time with whānau. We will still be in the shop over summer so come and have a look and say hi! Post Malone has paid over $2 Million NZ for the 'One Ring to Rule Them All' Magic the Gathering card, found by a Canadian player.
Read the story here. Because there is only the one card in all of existence, this has become the highest valued MTG card. Over recent years we have seen the toy and collectables market strongly appreciate. Antique & Art have provided a number of valuations for Magic the Gathering (and other Trading) Cards. Some New Zealand players are lucky enough to have Black Lotuses locked in bank vaults for safe keeping! Staff from Te Papa and local museums are helping Marae from "Dargaville to Feilding" restore Taonga damaged in Cyclone Gabrielle.
Excellent article by Stuff with audio from RNZ available here. A large carved panel thought to be made of sought after Huanghuali wood, sold for a record price at Dunbar's Asian Art Sale recently. Lot 975 was estimated at $50,000 and sold after some healthy bidding for $136,000 plus premium. This may be the highest price for an Asian antique in the New Zealand market.
Other items in the sale included 18th and 19th Century Tibetan Buddhist religious pieces from the collection of Geoffrey Key, London. With competitive bidding from "a man sitting on the couch" (as James the auctioneer referred to him as) many of this collection sold over the high estimates. The online catalogue with prices realised is here. "From sci-fi mags to nude lady porcelain figures: The collection of Mr Smiles, King of Curios, goes under the hammer in Auckland" Article from the New Zealand Herald here. The Catalogue is online now at Cordy's Mt Eden.
Flood damage to marae in Cyclone Gabrielle's wake has communities calculating what to do to save precious taonga.
Whanau of Tangoio Marae, north of Napier, are taking toll of the damage unleashed last week. Hori Reti its chairperson (pictured above) said in a Stuff article “All the carvings, all the tukutuku panels will need to be carefully removed from the whare.” “It will be damaged so there will be some restoration that does need to take place. But the majority of those taonga, we're confident that we will be able to salvage fully.” See the full Stuff article here and the Newshub video clip here. Details on how to contribute to their clean up costs are given here or here. |
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