Tonic Money

10/12/2014

Christie's Contemporary Art Sales Achieve Record Results In Paris.

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/christies-contemporary-art-sales-achieve-record-results-in-paris

10/12/2014

Gemfields smashes records with £27m ruby auction.

http://www.professionaljeweller.com/article-15416-gemfields-smashes-records-with-pound27m-ruby-auction/

High quality rough auction results in average price of £440 per carat.

05/12/2014

Priceless Burrell artefacts to go on show in London.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/priceless-burrell-artefacts-to-go-on-show-in-london-190904n.26021195

THESE are some of the masterpieces from the world famous Burrell collection which will go on display in London.

05/12/2014

How pawnbroking is targeting new audiences.

http://www.professionaljeweller.com/article-15338-focus-how-pawnbroking-is-targeting-new-audiences/

Trade grows 8% as taboos are broken and new consumers are reached.

05/12/2014

Priceless jewels on show in Florence.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/a/25667921/priceless-jewels-on-show-in-florence/

04/12/2014

Head of auction house Christie's to step down amid record sales run.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/02/uk-auction-christies-ceo-idUKKCN0JG2FP20141202

04/12/2014

Turner masterpiece sells for £30.3m, setting world auction record for artist.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/03/jmw-turner-rome-from-mount-aventine-painting-record-30m-auction-sothebys

21/11/2014

Jeweller Graff buys back ruby for record $8.6 million from Sotheby's auction.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/13/uk-auction-jewels-idUKKCN0IX1J420141113

GENEVA (Reuters) - London luxury jeweller Laurence Graff has paid a record 8.2 million Swiss francs (5.46 million pounds) for a Burmese ruby, the...

21/11/2014

Would it be a betrayal to sell the jewellery my grandmother left me?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/21/betrayal-to-sell-jewellery-grandmother-left-money

We loved one another very much. Now I am struggling financially, but worry that raising money in this way would be an insult to her memory

21/11/2014

Contemporary art is judged by its price tag not by aesthetics.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ce063c76-6f32-11e4-8d86-00144feabdc0.html

Among the many records set at Christie’s astonishing $852.9m contemporary art sale in New York last week, one has so far gone strangely unreported;...

20/11/2014

Christie’s sets $853m art auction record.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/803dcc74-6b0a-11e4-be68-00144feabdc0.html

Works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning helped Christie’s set a world record for a single auction on Wednesday when works at...

20/11/2014

Patek Philippe pocket watch reaches record price of £15m at Sotheby's auction.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/11/watch-world-record-21-million-bid-geneva-auction

The ‘Henry Graves Supercomplication’ can reveal the phases of the moon, a perpetual calendar and the Manhattan night sky