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Suffolk village’s charms include two fairs and three antiques shops
06 November 2023Two popular fairs are running in November and December in the Suffolk village of Long Melford which also offers three antiques businesses as an extra draw for buyers to part with their cash in a pre-Christmas splash.
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Eighteenth century plates from Steel collection
16 October 2023Around 20 lots of delftware, mostly plates, tiles and chargers with modest estimates, featured in the sale of the Diana Steel collection.
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Elveden Hall sale: provenance creates a heady brew
09 October 2023Country house auction boasted not just on-the-premises appeal but Guinness and Duleep Singh connection
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Bring on the Clowes
09 October 2023James Clowes (c.1643-1705), who was born in Astbury, Cheshire, became a Free Brother of The Clockmakers Company in 1671 – the same year as Thomas Tompion, Joseph Knibb, Daniel Quare and Joseph Windmills. He worked first in St Giles in the Fields and then at Saint Ann’s Blackfriars.
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Elveden Hall auction brings back the room bidders
18 September 2023In what may have felt like a flashback to the past, when bidders actually attended day sales in person, the Elveden Hall auction held by Sworders was deemed a runaway success.
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Norfolk dealer’s glass collection up for sale
18 September 2023A single-owner sale from the late Norfolk glass collector and dealer Brian Watson is coming to Bishop & Miller on September 27.
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Battle for lowly-estimated Empire period Sèvres plates
11 September 2023A group of nine Empire period Sèvres porcelain plates were the object of keen interest when they came up for sale at Lockdales in Ipswich on August 31.
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Mason’s shows signs of making a collecting comeback
28 August 2023Is Mason’s ironstone going through a collecting Renaissance? Well, perhaps
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Guinness family collection to be auctioned in rare on-the-premises sale at Elveden Hall
15 August 2023A single owner collection from Lord Iveagh will be offered by Sworders at the Guinness family’s stately home Elveden Hall in Suffolk.
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First Suffolk, now on to Norfolk
14 August 2023Inaugural Lomax-organised Southwold event could be joined by another high-end fair also in East Anglia
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Clarice Cliff keeps a strong collector following
17 July 2023It is 20 years ago that the auction record for Clarice Cliff was sent tumbling when an 18in (46cm) May Avenue charger sold for £34,000 at Christie’s South Kensington on May 14, 2003. Those were heady days indeed.
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You shouldn’t lose your marbles – they could be worth thousands
03 July 2023Vendor finds glass marbles are worth more than expected as they make surprise four-figure sums in Bury St Edmunds
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Emporium joins the line-up
26 June 2023The owners of an antiques centre in a large leisure and shopping village near Stowmarket in Suffolk are opening a second branch nearby just two years after the first one welcomed its first buyers.
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‘Earliest standard measure’ is the weigh to go
22 May 2023The Oak Interior sale at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on June 1-2 includes this ‘important and exceptional’ Edward IV bronze measure.
Suffolk event offers the pick of Provence
15 May 2023Lovers of the le style français can look forward to the week-long annual French summer market to be held at the home of dealers Cathy and Peter Bullen next month.
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Renowned candlestick back in the limelight at Stowmarket sale
08 May 2023Estimated at £15,000-20,000, this 8½in (22cm) Elizabeth I or James I pewter bell-based candlestick sold to a private UK collector bidding online for £25,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) as part of the Chapman collection at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on April 27.
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Female quartet launches collective art fair
24 April 2023A small Modern British art fair is launching in Aldeburgh this summer to coincide with the town’s historic music festival.
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Two fairs to tempt you to Long Melford
24 April 2023A monthly fair billed as the longest-running and only midweek datelined pre-1930s antiques fair in the world has just celebrated its 32nd anniversary
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Beccles Antiques Market is back
17 April 2023It’s coming up to open season for open-air markets and the popular Beccles Antiques Market is back this month on Sunday, April 30.
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Southwold show is just the start for new organiser of Lomax Fairs
03 April 2023New organiser of Lomax Fairs says he wants to expand them through new social media, dealers and venues.
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