Dealers' Diary

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

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.

Kate Mitas specialises in 19th and 20th century American social history, with an emphasis on women’s history. She is one of the exhibitors at The Ephemera Society of America fair in March (18-19) and the New York Antiquarian Book Fair (April 27-30).

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

Albert Amor’s latest catalogue opens with a mustard pot. Dating to c.1753-54, the pot and cover of baluster shaped ‘silver’ form is offered for £4800.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online.

Saul Greenstein started trading in 2001 and has been dealing from Grays antiques centre of Mayfair, London, for the past 15 years.

Two new dealerships have joined The Blanchard Collective of Froxfield, Wiltshire: Peter Cosby, as The Madison Gallery, and Sarah Howard, a local artist and dealer.

A watercolour of Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte d’Azur by Arthur Knighton-Hammond (1875-1970) is included in Messum’s exhibition on the artist.

This painting of Mont Blanc as seen from the Lago Chérouit, Val d’Aosta, Italy, is among the works featured in this year’s Peaks and Glaciers exhibition at John Mitchell Fine Paintings.

Rare books specialist Shapero Rare Books run by Bernard Shapero is a regular exhibitor at TEFAF.

How love has been represented in jewellery through the ages was the topic of discussion at Grays Antiques in London.

Fraser Short is gallery manager at Old Masters specialist Rafael Valls, one of the regular returning dealers at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht.

Carlo Milano of Callisto Fine Arts specialises in European sculpture, works of art and Old Master paintings, and is one of 10 exhibitors joining the Showcase this year.

A newcomer to the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair will bring a chest of drawers in a distinct painted style as part of their debut offering.

Peta Smyth has been dealing in antique textiles since 1976 and her shop at 42 Moreton Street in Pimlico, west London, is renowned for its extensive array of fine textiles, attracting a loyal and diverse clientele of interior designers, antiques dealers and collectors.

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

Jan Keyne is a long-time exhibitor at the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair in Battersea as Town & Country and has also appeared on Dickinson’s Real Deal for 13 years.

The much-loved Petersfield Antiques Fair is back this month, and it has something to celebrate.

Improved security is one of the priorities at the fair after the shock of a jewellery robbery last year.