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THE British Antique Dealers’ Association celebrated its 90th anniversary with a dinner for 160 members and guests at Fishmongers Hall in the City of London on November 4.

AT their Council meeting last week the British Antique Dealers Association decided on no further action regarding complaints by some members that well-known Kent dealer and fellow member Lennox Cato was fitted with a microphone while carrying out vetting duties at last month's Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair.

Elaine Dean, Secretary General of The British Antique Dealers’ Association for the past 25 years, will step down on July 10. She will be succeeded by her current deputy Mark Dodgson who already has 18 years experience with the BADA.

AFTER suspending the membership of London dealer John Hobbs following allegations made against him in the press in early April, the British Antique Dealers’ Association have announced that Mr Hobbs has resigned from the association.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association have suspended the membership of John Hobbs pending an inquiry into the allegations made against the Pimlico Road dealer in a national newspaper.

The increasingly prosperous North East of England will receive its first high-end antiques fair next February when 27 LAPADA or BADA dealers descend upon Linden Hall, near Morpeth in Northumberland.

An improvement in the trading climate but a negative response to the artists’ resale right were among the findings of the latest British Antique Dealers’ Association members poll.

KENT dealer and BADA member Lennox Cato has bought the premises next to his Edenbridge shop and this week reopens them as The Edenbridge Galleries, a centre exclusively for BADA members.

NEXT year the British Antique Dealers Association celebrate the 90th anniversary of their foundation with a series of countrywide exhibitions in members’ shops and galleries.

Clarion Arts have announced that this year’s Winter Fine Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia will be held in association with both of the UK trade associations.

THE British Antique Dealers’ Association have called off plans for their much-debated January fair in New York.

A POWERFUL group of top-end American dealers have voiced opposition to the British Antique Dealers’ Association’s decision to stage a 50-stand fair at Sotheby’s New York early next year.

50-stand event planned at Sotheby’s

MORE details have been emerging as to exactly how dealers will have to meet their obligations under the droit de suite directive.

Fewer dealers are suffering a decline in sales and the export market has improved, according to the latest British Antique Dealers’ Association survey of members.

London antiquities dealer James Ede is handing back a rare bronze statuette – stolen from Samos Museum during the Second World War – to Greece.

Baroness Rawlings of Burnham Westgate has accepted the invitation of the British Antique Dealers’ Association to become their new president. She will replace Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville who has filled the role since 1995.

ONE dealer who concurs with the findings in a recent BADA poll that shop exhibitions play an increasingly important part in business is Wiltshire ceramics specialist (and BADA member) Andrew Dando.

No great improvement in trading conditions was reported by the majority of dealers who completed the most recent BADA survey.

CHARLES Truman has been named as the new chairman of the British Antiques Dealers Association. He takes over from pottery dealer Jonathan Horne.