Category: Old Articles
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Putting the hammer on the Big 2 good for collectors
This article was first published March 5th, 2000, in the Sunday Business Post The number of column inches that the price-fixing fiasco between Sotheby’s and Christie’s has received recently has been nothing short of startling. But the subsequent resignations, the US Justice Department antitrust investigations and the outcry from clients and shareholders have to a…
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The beauty of buying time
This article was first published in the ‘Collector’s Corner’, Sunday Business Post, Feb 2000 under the title ‘Timely reminders’, and March 5th 2000, under the above title, ‘The beauty of buying time’ With the hullabaloo from the millennium celebrations and universal obsession with recording that moment now relegated to distant memory, it is worth looking…
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Beauty can be profitable.
This article first appeared in the February 2000, in the Sunday Business Post Considering the current activity within the equity markets, especially with technological stocks on the Nasdaq, it is easy to forget that long before the performance of firms like Microsoft, Iona and Baltimore Technologies were part of dinner party conversations, the profit motive…
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If you go down to the woods today.
This article was first published in Collectors Corner, Oct 1st, 2000 in the Sunday Business Post In case you hadn’t noticed from the masthead, today is the first of October. This is of no major consequence except for the fact that from now until the end of the year, we can expect to be…
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Auction Houses go online
This article was first published April 2, 2000 in the Sunday Business Post. Auction Houses go Online They said it couldn’t last. For months the analysts have been painting the walls with a dark thick impasto. The message was there for all to see – internet stocks were simply selling way above their value. As…
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Topographically speaking volumes
This article was first published in ‘Collector’s Corner’ of the Sunday Business Post, September 24th, 2000 Although the term ‘topographical painting’ suggests connections with local geography, landscape and mapmaking, in the strictest sense topography means the portraiture of places. The topographer’s task was chiefly to gather information and record a view for posterity. The topographical…
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Auction houses to pay for collusion
This article was first published in the Sunday Business Post, October 1st 2000 News was emerging last week of a possible denouement to the long running price fixing dispute between the two leviathans of the fine art auctioneering world, Sotheby’s and Christie’s It now appears that both firms will be paying out over $500 million…
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Books for pleasure and profit.
This article first appeared in the Collector’s Corner of the Sunday Business Post on 20 February 2000 Book collecting has for years inhabited an inaccessible world of dark, musty shops open only to the erudite and the initiated This esoteric image may have been true once. but today it is a myth. The business is…
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Tell me something I don’t know!
Yes, yes. I know. The first thing that most people will say on seeing my first post to the ‘Old Articles’ section, is …. wait for it… You have HAIR!!! Well, Doh! Actually the past tense would be entirely more appropriate, as in ‘had’ hair. And yes I did have hair in those pics for…