Eventos
1970 UNESCO Convention on
the Means of Prohibiting and
Preventing the Illicit Import,
Export and Transfer of Ownership
of Cultural PropertyPresident Nasser Dies
- Sadat becomes
Egyptian PresidentPresident Sadat
assassinated -
Mubarak becomes
Egyptian PresidentBlack Monday -
largest single-day
drop in the stock
market 22.6%Sterling
Devaluation
by 14%Six-Day War
between Egypt & Israel'Big Bang'
UK financial
marketsYom Kippur
WarInternational
Monetary
Fund Bailout of
£2.3 billion
to UKSterling Crisis
of 1964US Tax
Reform Act
of 1986Capital Gains Tax
introduced for
art over £1000Christie's goes PublicSotheby's purchases
Parke-Bernet in
New YorkChristie's opens
New York officeAbu Simbel
temple relocatedUSA passes Convention on
Cultural Property
Implementation Act (CCPIA)Christie's & Sotheby's
add 10% buyer's premiumUK inflation
reaches
25%US
inflation
reaches
12%Sotheby's Peter Wilson retiresSotheby's Parke-Bernet
goes publicSotheby's Re-PrivatisedAuction Houses introduce
estimates in cataloguesErnest Brummer Egyptian
Auction - Sotheby'sSotheby's Egyptian
Exhibition in JapanCarter Sphinx
Sotheby's New York
New Record for AntiquitiesMFA Egyptian Statue
Sotheby's New York
New Record for Antiquities'Lost' Chautauqua Block Statue
Sotheby's New York
New Record Egyptian AntiquityJohn Lennon Sekhmet
Sotheby's New York
New Record for Egyptian AntiquitySeated Statue of Lady
Christie's London
New Record for
Egyptian AntiquityAuction Houses
exclude buyers names
from price listsChristie's New York pauses
antiquities auctions due to renovationsEgyptian Pectoral
fails to sale at
Sotheby's New YorkEgypt Passes Law No. 117Períodos
Tutankhamun
Treasures
North AmericaTutankhamun
Treasures
JapanTutankhamun
and His Time
Paris, FranceTreasures of
Tutankhamun
London, UKTreasures of the
Tomb of
Tutankhamun
USSRThe Treasures of Tutankhamun
North AmericaThe Treasures of
Tutankhamun
Germany1973 Oil EmbargoThe Cold WarWar of Attrition between Egypt & IsraelStock Market Crash resulting in
Global RecessionTimes-Sotheby Index PublishedBritish Rail Pension Fund actively collecting through Sotheby'sUNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of NubiaBritish Rail Pension Fund
starts selling off assets through Sotheby's1979 Oil CrisisJapanese Art Buying Boom
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