Issue 2047 | 30th June 2012 UK £2.00 – USA $6.50 – Europe €3.95


Animal magic page 8-9 and 38-41


Decorative art sales in London and Paris reviewed


Power speeds to record


LOCKDALES (15% buyer’s premium) of Ipswich are probably best known as coin and militaria specialists but, having moved premises earlier this year, they have also offered some stand-out items in their fi ne art and antiques sales in 2012. None more so than the three prize Grosvenor School prints at their


latest such sale on June 13-14. Offered separately, the two linocuts by Cyril Power (1872-1951) and one by his artistic partner Sybil Andrews (1898-1992) had come in on a


continued on page 3 Above: Speed Trial, a linocut by Cyril Power that took a record £96,000 at Lockdales.


Complex law on antique fi rearms leaves collectors feeling targeted


■ Confusing rules on owning guns and a zero-tolerance approach lead to court action


Tom Derbyshire reports


ANTIQUE fi rearm collectors and dealers are at risk of prosecution because of gun ownership laws.


The warning comes from fi rearms law


expert Laura Saunsbury, of Lewis Nedas & Co solicitors in Camden, London. The fi rm have been involved in recent cases where possession of antique weapons has been the issue. Collectors face draconian penalties


under “extremely complex” rules, and a tough approach means prosecution has become more likely. Despite the complicated nature


of the rules, dating back to the 1968 Firearms Act but updated in


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1997, considerable confusion still results and the authorities themselves warn that “each case should be dealt with on its merits”. The word “antique” is not defi ned anywhere within the fi rearms acts. Section 58(2) of the Firearms Act 1968 does detail exemptions for “all antique fi rearms which are sold, transferred, purchased, acquired or possessed as curiosities or ornaments”.


These include, for example, old muzzle- loading fi rearms. Ms Saunsbury – co-author of The


British Firearms Law Handbook (2011) – said: “I think for some time now the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police have had what I would refer to as a zero tolerance policy, in the sense that with anything to do with fi rearms at all they feel as matter of policy they cannot be seen to be in any way lenient, and


Left: fi rearms law expert Laura Saunsbury. continued on page 4


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