Dealers

Myrtle’s Courtyard on the 2000-acre Hampton Estate, near Farnham in Surrey, is a cluster of Victorian buildings, originally the Hampton dairy farm and milking parlour, which is now used for events.

Coinex, the most important event on the British calendar for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair on September 27-28.

Oliver Bayliss is the proprietor of Bayliss Rare Books and tells ATG about paying attention to detail and a rare militaria find.

Gladwell & Patterson is a fine art gallery with an extraordinary 275-year history.

An auctioneer who relocated to the West Country after working at a London saleroom for eight years has launched two antiques fairs.

A dealer and restorer since he was 16, Henry Vaughan has two of the largest shops at Hudson’s Homes & Antiques near Stratford-upon-Avon.

Venerable fair that has been running since 1951 is still a very popular choice and boasts a devoted following

Guy Peppiatt is holding an exhibition of works by the ‘master of reality’ William Henry Hunt (1790-1864).

For the first time London’s three major auction houses will host commercial dealer and gallery exhibitions as part of Asian Art in London (AAL).

Bayliss Rare Books is offering a fine leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with moveable type. The leaf in question is the end of Chapter 45 through to the beginning of Chapter 48 of Isaiah (45:6-48:6).

DC Silver is a Washington, DC based e-commerce business specialising in antiques. ATG spoke to its proprietor, Nate Ivey

An example of how a high-end fair can work very well in areas where such events are completely unknown is the biannual Enys House Antiques Fair at Penryn in west Cornwall.

Ian and Grahame Wilson of long-running Newcomen Fairs are expanding their events which are held in the Elsecar Heritage Centre, a range of restored Victorian buildings near Barnsley where they also own the 120-dealer Elsecar Antiques Centre.

Modern British trailblazer’s works inspired by a Swiss glacier form centrepiece of event exhibition

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

As longstanding dealers retire and iconic outlets become historic memories, it is cheering to note exciting new developments and the enthusiasm of young entrepreneurs.

Modern British Art Gallery has just launched an online exhibition that explores the legacy of Willem and Pauline Barbieri.