Dealers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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%.

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

A portrait of a boy with a white cravat by Michaelina Wautier (1604- 89) was among the highlight sales at TEFAF Maastricht.

Another centre will be added to the Antiques on High brand currently in Oxford, Sidmouth and Bowness-on-Windermere when owner Vincent Page opens a fourth shop “north of Birmingham but south of Bowness,” he says.

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