Dealers

Two more London fairs are on the cards for next year.

The team behind dealer marketplace 2Covet has bought The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair.

Jackie Edwards launched her antiques and vintage street markets nearly 10 years ago as ACVR Events.

Cotswolds fair provides a summer treat while Chester makes an autumn comeback

Two different dealers that started their businesses during lockdown are embarking on the next part of their careers.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Paul Foster set up Paul Foster Books in 1990 and trades online, at fairs and by appointment in London.

A quick look at some recent events and objects on offer around the trade.

Popular toys event returns after Covid disruption and includes ex-Woburn Abbey festival

Business is doing so well at the newly acquired and renovated antiques centre in Wallingford, formerly the Lamb Arcade, that turnover has increased by 25%.

A few antiques businesses operate in garden centres but sadly one of these is closing.

London art dealer Danny Katz is loaning a John Constable (1776-1837) painting which he bought at Sotheby’s last year to Brighton’s Royal Pavilion.

Sales abounded at TEFAF Maastricht and Masterpiece London this summer.

LAPADA, The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers, is returning to The Game Fair this summer and plans to debut at The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Welsh Game Fair in the autumn.

“Dealers are coming from far and wide including Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire and of course Worcestershire and the West Midlands in general,” says Paul Rowson, who in May launched his new antiques and collectors’ fair in the atmospheric setting of Hartlebury Castle in Worcester, known as the Bishops’ Palace.

This display of copper and pottery pieces is from one of Colin Caygill Events’ busy monthly midweek antiques and vintage fairs run in Northumberland in the market town of Hexham.

Plenty of antiques and vintage fairs take place in Suffolk this month and early in August.

Special report on Masterpiece and TEFAF Maastricht – both held in summer this year

When a new client with an interest in Roman marbles visited Charles Ede at TEFAF, they liked what they saw but thought they would come back.