Dealers

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

Sadly, I have to report the death of the former Chelsea antique dealer Christine Schell on Monday, June 12, 2023.

A spate of jewellery-related crimes was reported in the last month, sparking further concerns for those in the trade.

B2B gives up the Detling Showground organisation after more than a decade but still runs Malvern

A roundup of news and events from around the trade

The return last month on a sunlit June day of the annual Church Street Antiques Fair in Marylebone after a four-year absence was hailed as a cracker – with a call for this event to be a more regular occurrence.

I have recently been visited in London by an American-based auctioneer who is looking for sporting paintings for his upcoming sales in Kentucky in the New Year.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the launch of Art Advisory Group by Crispian Riley-Smith.

A relief sculpture by Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720) which has been identified as depicting Louis, Grand Dauphin, is on the market for £1.5m.

AS Fairs’ new event in the Cotswolds boasted star visitors but was also underpinned by strong sales

A Camden Passage jewellery dealer suffered a devastating loss of his entire stock after a theft from his stand at the London market.

Cotswold art gallery Trinity House Paintings is in administration.

Among the busiest stands on the opening day of The Treasure House Fair that ran at the Chelsea Hospital site from June 22-26 was that of horology dealership Carter Marsh.

A further selection of highlights from the London dealers’ wider-ranging showcase this summer

BADA dealer Timothy Millett, a specialist in historical medals and related works of art, has been collecting ‘defaced’ coins and tokens for many years. He first saw one as a teenager when working at the venerable London firm AH Baldwin in the late 1970s.

Asian Art in London’s summer edition returns this year for its second outing.

Every year there are large and small robberies committed against members of the antiques trade. These vary from ‘opportunist’ thieving – a brooch, a bag, a candlestick – to much more extreme and planned attacks.

Craig Finch of Finch & Co offers antiquities, ethnographic art, European sculpture and fine art.

I have been shown an article in ATG (No 2586) regarding Richard Cawood, the former organiser of the Antique Home & Vintage Fair that ran at York Racecourse for several years.