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		<title>Orpheus Pavement Roman Mosaic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original Orpheaus pavement is housed at Prinknash Abbey and is made of limestone using seven different colours and fourteen shades. It depicts Orpheus charming all forms of life with his lyre and dates to 325 AD.]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic Chinese lantern Vase &#8211; Imperial Qianlong (1735-1795)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lantern vase is decorated in underglaze blue and copper red with a continuous mountainous landscape and incised to the clay with passages of Anhua, visible only when held to the light.]]></description>
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		<title>Tortworth Court Antiques and Fine Art Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited, returns to the Cotswolds to launch the new Tortworth Court Antiques and Fine Art Fair. Open from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th Feb. 2010 at the Tortworth Court Four Pillars Hotel, Tortworth, near Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire.]]></description>
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		<title>Fontaine’s Auction Gallery Tiffany Lamp Appraisals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fontaine’s Auction Gallery is offering a free one-day seminar and appraisal on the lamps of Tiffany and other 20th century lighting, to be held Sunday, Mar. 21, in the firm’s gallery facility, located at 1485 South Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Fontaine’s has been the scene of numerous auctions that featured rare and vintage lamps and lighting fixtures.]]></description>
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		<title>Antique Furniture Sales Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The value of antique furniture dropped in 2009, according to the Antiques Collector Club’s Annual Furniture Index (AFI) recorded a fall of seven per cent during 2009. The biggest ever 12-month drop reflects lukewarm bidding at auctions and little trading at retail outlets.]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of Trafalgar Flag Sells for £320,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only surviving Union flag from the Battle of Trafalgar sold at auction yesterday for more than 20 times its predicted price.]]></description>
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		<title>The Staffordshire Hoard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Staffordshire Hoard as it's been called show's dedicated antiques collectors that there are many, many items from our history still to be discovered. Archaeologists, historians and enthusiasts will be pouring overe the hoard for decades and museum that finally houses the artefacts will profit from countless exhibitions over the coming years. But, what about Terry Herbert who discovered it....]]></description>
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		<title>Tompion Clock Stolen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A THOMAS Tompion table clock was among the items stolen in a raid on a Cumbrian stately home on Saturday, September 19. At around 5am, at least two thieves used ladders to scale the walls of Levens Hall, near Kendal before climbing to a first floor room. It is understood that the clock was damaged during the burglary and one of its four feet is now missing.]]></description>
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		<title>66 Million Year Old Tyrannosaurus Rex &#8211; No Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He's called Samson and he is one of the three most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton specimens ever discovered, with the most intact skull of any T.Rex fossil. Samson recently went under the hammer in Las Vegas but in the current economic climate auctions are unpredictable and dinosaurs tend to be very expensive.]]></description>
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		<title>Emperor Qianlongs Personal Inkstone Sells for Record Price.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rji</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chineses Inkstone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emperor Qianlong's personal inkstone leaves its $20,000-30,000 estimate in the dust as it sells to a private buyer for $1.2m (£769,250) at Christie’s on September 15]]></description>
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