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medals page 48 | VARIOUS


Gallantry medal sales previewed and reviewed


UK salerooms hit by major credit card fraud


■ Many regional auctioneers now liable for fi ve-fi gure sums


Roland Arkell reports


POLICE are appealing for help after a swathe of established regional salerooms were hit by a major credit card fraud last month. Victims are now recommending the


adoption of a new protocol for regional auctioneers when conducting ‘cardholder not present’ credit card transactions. The case is the most serious of its


type in recent memory. Auctioneers in Derbyshire, Wiltshire, Avon, Sussex, London, Berkshire and Shropshire are all understood to have been duped in late October, accepting card payments for fi ve-fi gure sums for which they are now


the subject of attempted fraud. The same modus operandi was


used on each occasion. A man using a number of different names including Alistair Goldsmith, Richard Baker and James Baker contacted the auction house requesting to bid by telephone on diamond jewellery lots and high-value watches. In addition to supplying contact numbers, he offered to provide copies of his passport and driving licence by email or fax. After bidding successfully (or in two cases purchasing unsold items after the sale) the accounts were promptly settled by part-payments on a number of different credit cards, with a courier collecting the merchandise immediately or on the following day. Some days later, each of the auction


houses was contacted by credit card services provider Streamline and told the transactions might be fraudulent (at least one of the cards used was on the cloned list). Subsequent investigation suggested the identifi cation documents were


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Galway tankard by Thomas Lynch, c.1730


Pair of Cork Hanoverian spoons by Wm. Burnett, c.1710


Queen Anne trefi d spoon, James Weldon, Dublin 1703/4


Pair of Limerick Hanoverian spoons by George Moore, c.1750


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Right: George IV drum table, in the manner of Morel and


Seddon, £40,000 at Dreweatts on November 3.


£40,000 drum from Windsor Castle


THIS George IV rosewood, parcel gilt and gilt metal mounted drum table, in the manner of Morel and Seddon, c.1825 topped Dreweatts furniture sale at Donnington Priory on November 3 with a bid of £40,000 (plus 20 per cent buyer’s premium). The table had been acquired by the vendors from Mallets (it was in cleaned


and restored condition) but of more signifi cance were a stamp dated 1866 and two labels reading Windsor Castle Room 255/1886, No. 31 and 255. The 1866 inventory for Windsor Castle is now lost but in the 1886 inventory, item No. 31 is listed as residing in a room in the Edward III Tower. The relevant entry reads: A rosewood Library Table on pillar and triangular


base with carved and gilt claw feet, four drawers in frame, with chased ormolu moulding round the top. Dreweatts had estimated the table cautiously at £2000-3000.


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auction reports page 18 | PENZANCE


Why traditional mixed sales still have a strong following


Emir confi rms Qatari interest in buying Christie’s


■ François Pinault must be prepared to make any deal attractive


Ivan Macquisten reports


SPECULATION takeover of Christie’s by


Asked whether or not he had already


made a bid, the Emir said not yet, but confi rmed that the Qataris “would not hesitate” if a good opportunity arose. Further questioning indicated that


key to any transaction would be the willingness of current owner François Pinault to negotiate an attractive deal.


collector of contemporary art, has had a controlling stake in Christie’s since 1998. The news fi nally confi rms longstanding


acquisition of Christie’s, although it is not clear just how far the comments in the FT interview constitute the fi rst approach in


Woburn club record


THIS late 18th/early 19th century Native American ball- head club made a house record when it sold for £33,000 (plus 15 per cent buyer’s premium) at Charles Ross auctioneers in Woburn, Bedfordshire on October 21. The 2ft 1in (64cm) club was consigned by a local


vendor who had owned it for 40 years but presumed it was virtually worthless, and was pitched at a “there-to- be-sold” estimate of £1000-1500. Although there was no bidding in the room, seven phone lines were booked for the lot, three from America and the rest from the UK, and it sold to a New York dealer. The club is probably from the Great Lakes region,


and bears a strong similarity to the Ojibwa tribe club sold by Warwickshire auctioneers Bigwood in November last year for £19,500 (plus 15 per cent buyer’s premium) to William Jamieson of Jamieson Tribal Art in Toronto. But while the Bigwood club was marked with 11 stick men signifying the number of kills made by the owner, the club at Charles Ross had no such macabre markings, but was incised with a more decorative pattern.


l A This type of club with a tapering shaft and globular head carved from a


single piece of wood was common during Colonial times from the Atlantic coast to the Missouri river. Some of the Native American tribes, including the Ojibwa warriors, allied themselves with the British army during the American Revolution, and it was quite common for them to swap weapons with the British troops as a form of souvenir. Given its probable late 18th century date, the club could have been brought to England by a soldier returning from the American Revolutionary War of 1775-1783.


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The Temps Fort’s spreads beyond the Drouot


A new Chinese


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Left: the record-breaking Ruislip yang cai, distinctive for its reticulated double-walled construction, combines various differing decorative elements in a manner typical of Tang Ying’s


directorship of the Imperial manufactory at Jingdezhen during the early years of the reign of


of the reign of the Qianlong emperor – a period of remarkable technical achievement.


It is the perfect expression of current Chinese taste with a recent exhibition at the National Palace Museum, Taipei titled Stunning


Decorative Porcelains from the Ch’ien-lung Reign focusing upon a number of pieces of this type in the collection.


Quite how an acknowledged


imperial masterpiece reached Middlesex is unknown but it probably left China soon after the end of the Second Opium War in 1860 when the Summer


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