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The young auctioneer was ecstatic. He’d just sold the object illustrated here for a cool £16,000 on behalf of a client from Crewe who didn’t know he owned it. The rare and early celestial and terrestrial pocket globe – consider it a precursor (by about four centuries) of the sat-nav – was “found” by the [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Inspiration for these weekly missives, as I’ve said before, comes in many mysterious ways. This week’s is as bizarre as any. Knowing that I write it, a long-standing contact in the antiques business – he frames and sells fine art prints for a living – presented me with a cassette tape he had [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português If it’s true that sailors have one in every port, then an awful lot of young ladies will be looking forward to next Tuesday with high expectation. If you need reminding, it’s Valentine’s Day and woe betide the lover who fails to send a [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove�Espa�ol | Deutsche | Fran�ais | Italiano | Portugu�s It’s 1947, you’re travelling First Class aboard the Cunard White Star flagship RMS Queen Elizabeth and dinner is served. For starters, it’s oysters on the half shell, followed by clear turtle soup, turbot for the fish course and timable of ham. The roast sirloin [...]

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