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...Stanley Gibbons then fractionalised the stamp but stopped the process after a 15 per cent take-up, opting instead to create a secondary market, a spokesman says....
...Among the items on offer next week is Rie’s pink, turquoise and beige spiralling clay “Vase with flaring lip” (1979, est £30,000-£50,000), used in a 1987 set of postage stamps to mark the centenary of the...
...On Wednesday morning, Ofcom chief executive Melanie Dawes said that it would report “imminently”. The new government intervention could extend the process by a further few weeks....
...Jae5 has given it a London stamp, especially through his work with leading UK rapper J Hus....
...You know, there’s still so many unanswered questions,” said Melanie Oldham, a resident of the city of Freeport....
...It was reported on Wednesday that this will also include the current stamp duty holiday on home purchases....
...“The German economy is now clearly in a downturn,” said Melanie Debono, an economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics....
...NFTs essentially stamp the art on the blockchain and — for works made virtually — are proving appealing....
...Vera Salomons put her own stamp on the museum through her passion for Islamic art....
...“While the leadership feels confident about the economy’s trajectory, there is still a lot of uncertainty,” said Andrew Polk at Trivium, a Beijing-based consultancy....
...“Spherical Suprematism” stayed with Costakis when he emigrated — the work has a Soviet export permit stamp on its reverse — and he kept it until 1983, when it was sold at Sotheby’s for £220,000 (the equivalent...
...There has been a flurry of activity at Artory, a blockchain-based art registry that essentially date-stamps validated records of transactions....
...Annette Nazareth, a partner at law firm Davis Polk, and a former SEC Commissioner, notes that for banks, trading crypto assets is a legal grey area....
...Head librarian Melanie Duffill-Jeffs says: “Several common threads emerged, like a love of books, heritage and tradition....
...Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation, said: “Making it easier to add floors to a property, so that an under-used house becomes several flats, is a good example of an initiative...
...Yi is the implementer of monetary policy,” said Andrew Polk, co-founder of business consultancy Trivium China in Beijing....
...A 14th-century masterpiece, pink pussy hats from the women’s marches across Scotland in 2017, more stamps than the great philatelist Stanley Gibbons could have franked in a lifetime and a retrospective of...
...Her decision is a coup for Ropac, who can’t have been the only market-maker wooing Peyton-Jones, and comes soon after the Salzburg and Paris gallerist made his stamp on the European scene with the opening...
...A Sotheby’s spokesperson says: “The available information and the lack of bronze stamp strongly support the view that this is a lifetime cast.”...
...Items in Mementos: Artists’ Souvenirs, Artefacts, and other Curiosities include a colonial-era postcard from Africa, with a French Republic stamp, chosen by Senegal-born artist Omar Ba; a New York meat hook...
...Benjamin Genocchio, who puts his stamp on the Armory Show fair for the first time this week (March 2-5), accepts that a downside of globalisation is that “there was a time when people had to come to New...
...“There’s a physical and social element to art that you can’t get on a computer at all,” says Melanie Gerlis, editor at large of the Art Newspaper....
...SoftBank said that expenses including the payment of a 0.5 per cent stamp duty to HM Revenue & Customs would come to £120.5m....
...Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation, said the decision was “extremely disappointing”....
...property investment can often act as the catalyst for regional growth and as the economy has recovered, investment has been spreading out from London to the UK’s regions, but will now undoubtedly slow,” said Melanie...
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