Dealers

Couple move upstairs in their 17th century Cotswolds townhouse to open an antiques shop below

This is one of the pictures offered in Stow Art House’s one-man show featuring British artist Tim Woolcock (b.1952).

A small James I oak chest lined with original block-printed lining paper incorporating the Royal Arms within the Garter is on offer at the Suffolk House Antiques summer exhibition.

A cheery Retail Fruit Trade Federation 1930s poster promoting healthy breakfast food features in AntikBar’s summer exhibition The visual Impact of Nourishment in Vintage Posters.

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

The organisers of the Wembley Antiques Market in north London have taken over the monthly Cheltenham Antiques and Vintage Market from Corky Events, which runs antique markets in St Albans and Chiswick.

Another day, another antiques street market. What could be better on a sunny day than browsing stalls and buying something you didn’t know you wanted but are so pleased you did?

My mother Sheila Hough (nee Haptie), who died in May at the age of 98, started her career in the antiques trade after leaving the WRAF [Women’s Royal Air Force] at the end of the Second World War.

Sally Honey runs Opus Antiques trading mostly online but also at events such as Art and Antiques for Everyone (next running in November).

US museum curators and collectors were among the buyers at London Art Week (LAW) this month.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) has appointed Ashley Gallant as its new managing director.

BRAFA’s new Expo base hailed as a success as Belgian fair returns to face-to-face business

Ex-industrial premises have been brought back by firms relying on heritage interest

Return of the physical event underlines continued value of doing business the traditional way

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

Unknown as he is to the vast majority of people, even Americans, Button Gwinnett is certainly renowned among collectors of early US history.

Fabrizio Moretti recently opened an Old Masters gallery, Moretti Fine Art, on Duke Street, St James’s, London.

A strong turn-out of collectors at the patron and curator evening of Masterpiece London and a busy preview day helped exhibitors to achieve significant early sales as the fair returned after a two-year pandemic-induced break.

The Sykeses of east Yorkshire made their fortunes in the 18th century not only from cloth but from the flourishing Baltic trade in crude iron.