Fighting over a rural idyll

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Some observers predict that prices for 18th and 19th century English watercolours will soon begin to rise sharply. There are already signs of renewed interest in this sector, with Hazlitt Gooden and Fox, for example, having paid 109,300 pounds sterling for a watercolour by David Cox. Recently-created art dealership Spink-Leger purchased 'The Interior of a Barn' by William Henry Hunt. Private collectors have become extremely demanding, and will only purchase works of the highest quality.

Watercolor painting

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The junk they serve up with the food

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Antiques were popular in chain restaruants but in 1992 the trend is abating. However, the American bistros TGI Friday's still have a list of American nostalgia with which to decorate their restaurants. Every TGI Friday's has the same items of junk, enough for 8,500 square feet. Interior decorator Rush Bowman from Arlington, Texas likes to display things the over-25's recognise from their early life.

Eating places, Patent owners and lessors, Management, Restaurants, Chain restaurants, Restaurant chains, Decoration and finishing, Antiques, Nostalgia, TGI Friday's Inc.

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Tusk, tusk, they're still buying ivory

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It has been illegal to trade in raw African ivory since the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in 1989, but antique carved ivory is not banned. Phillips of London sold 383 lots of Japanese and Chinese ivory pieces in Apr 1993, but prices were similar to those of 10 years earlier. Most of it will end up abroad as ivory is unpopular with British collectors.

Ivory, Antiques, Oriental, Ivory carving, Oriental antiques

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