Fairs and Markets

Antiques fairs and markets offer a great way to browse and buy.

With so many exhibitors or stallholders in one place you can view a lot of different items quickly and compare prices and quality.

Depending on the event, the first day or morning may be for reserved for trade buyers before the general public gain access.

Some antiques markets are held weekly whereas some fairs may be quarterly, biannual, once a year or have some other frequency. Check the Calendar section of this website for details or view the listings every week in the Antiques Trade Gazette newspaper.

Peterborough Festival of Antiques

Easter’s Festival of Antiques at Peterborough to be the last

16 March 2023

The East of England Showground is to close and will no longer be able to host large-scale outdoor events, forcing International Antiques and Collectors Fairs (IACF) to stop running the long-standing Peterborough Festival of Antiques.

Alexandra Palace

New management to bring back Ally Pally antiques fair

15 March 2023

Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors Fair (APACF) has been set up to bring back the long-running event in north London with a date scheduled for the summer.

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Dealers land major sales as museums return to TEFAF

13 March 2023

Museum buyers were out in force for the early days of TEFAF Maastricht.

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Join the fleamarket fellowship

13 March 2023

Square in front of Walthamstow’s distinctive town hall is venue for organisers’ latest venture

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Hercules study for a wall hanging

13 March 2023

The specialist Paris drawings dealer Galerie de Bayser is showing this work by Simon Vouet (1590-1649) at the Salon du Dessin

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Children's alphabet book stars at Edinburgh book fair

13 March 2023

An unrecorded and apparent first Scottish edition example of the 18th century children’s book Tom Thumb’s Play-book is set to feature at the Edinburgh Book Fair.

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Simple still-life and classical scene

13 March 2023

Plenty of Italian works can be found in the Salon du Dessin ranging from Old Master drawings to modern items

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LAPADA fair return in 2023 boosts membership

13 March 2023

The return of the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair has generated new memberships for the association.

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Organisers promise a wow factor

13 March 2023

Thirty dealers will be spreading out on the ground floor and in the grounds of Enys House, Penryn, near Falmouth in west Cornwall at the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs on Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2.

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Drawings fairs March on in Paris

13 March 2023

The Salon du Dessin and its Contemporary art younger sibling are now back to normal in the spring slot

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Paris galleries unveil highlights for Drawing Now

13 March 2023

For its presentation at Drawing Now, the Galerie Lelong from Paris will include a special focus on the work of Christine Safa (b.1994).

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‘Business is good’

13 March 2023

Alex Robins of AFC Fairs is a busy woman. She kicks off her showground scene on Easter Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, with the first of the biannual antiques and collectors’ fairs which she has run at the Wadebridge Showground in north Cornwall for 15 years.

Jewellery

Police appeal for help to track stolen jewellery from Sussex antiques centre

11 March 2023

Emporium Antiques Centre in Lewes suffered a break in and police are appealing for information.

Barthélemy Prieur sculpture

TEFAF Maastricht early sales include £1.4m bronze

09 March 2023

The fair is embracing the chance to go "back to normal" for the first time since 2019

TEFAF Maastricht 2022

TEFAF vetting practices criticised by former committee member

09 March 2023

A former member of the vetting committee at TEFAF Maastricht, which opens today, has criticised the fair for “vetting decisions being overruled or ignored”.

Royal Hospital Chelsea

Fresh name for London’s newest summer art fair

08 March 2023

A new fair planned by two of the original founders of 'Masterpiece' has a new name: 'The Treasure House Fair'.

Johnny Depp

Hollywood A-lister Johnny Depp makes surprise visit to Lincolnshire’s Hemswell Antique Centres

07 March 2023

Buyers of art and antiques can often be glamorous and wealthy but it is safe to say not many of the shoppers at Lincolnshire’s Hemswell Antique Centres arrive by helicopter.

Nicolaes de Bruyn attributed drawing

Dealers line up discoveries for TEFAF

06 March 2023

Discoveries by dealers will be among the highlights offered at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, opening this week.

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Worth popping in to see grandma

06 March 2023

Revived Woking event proves a hit with dealers who say the organisation is still a strength

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Connect Fair: Event run by dealers for dealers

06 March 2023

Organisers of Connect Fair also take part as exhibitors among a ‘young and lively’ group from across the UK

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