Working under the name Palm Antiques Fairs, Joy will mount her first fair at Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk over the weekend of September 26 to 28.
It will be a fully standfitted event featuring more than 40 established dealers, most of them well-known players on the quality fairs circuit, the organiser assures me.
A 1930s dateline will be enforced but there will be no vetting. Joy feels that the exhibitors are of a calibre to be trusted not to bring inferior goods – and certainly no reproductions.
The organiser, who insists this is a proper antiques fair, and not an ‘antiques and collectables’ event is confident she has spotted a gap in the market and that there is room for a quality fair in this part of East Anglia.
East Anglia is hardly the virgin territory it once was, but Joy is so convinced of her fair’s future she has already booked another Palm Antiques Fair for Blackthorpe Barn from March 26 to 28 next year and thereafter intends to run it twice yearly. Admission is £3.
Quality not quantity is key for new Suffolk fair
NORFOLK-based Joy Fletcher has been involved with antiques fairs in the past but not to the extent of her commitment to a brand new quality event she is launching later this month.
