Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
The web shop window: Victorian love token
20 March 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Americana dealer Kelly Kinzle
20 March 2023Kelly Kinzle Antiques trades from New Oxford, Pennslyvania, in the US.
18th century sieve among highlights at Cotswolds fair
20 March 2023A Georgian treen searce is among the highlights available at The Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.
Dealers land major sales as museums return to TEFAF
13 March 2023Museum buyers were out in force for the early days of TEFAF Maastricht.
Children's alphabet book stars at Edinburgh book fair
13 March 2023An 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.
London jewellery firm Symbolic & Chase expands
13 March 2023Symbolic & Chase is expanding its Old Bond Street premises from two to three floors with an opening scheduled for late April
LAPADA fair return in 2023 boosts membership
13 March 2023The return of the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair has generated new memberships for the association.
Moretti showcases those who followed Donatello
13 March 2023St James's exhibition looks beyond Donatello, currently featured at the V&A, to discover how Florentine artists influenced homes of the era
The web shop window: an early 20th century desk fan
13 March 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Dealers news in brief including a show focusing on an East Anglian artist in Aldeburgh
13 March 2023A roundup of news and events from across the trade
5 Questions with Kate Mitas
13 March 2023Kate 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).
TEFAF Maastricht early sales include £1.4m bronze
09 March 2023The fair is embracing the chance to go "back to normal" for the first time since 2019
TEFAF vetting practices criticised by former committee member
09 March 2023A former member of the vetting committee at TEFAF Maastricht, which opens today, has criticised the fair for “vetting decisions being overruled or ignored”.
Dealers line up discoveries for TEFAF
06 March 2023Discoveries by dealers will be among the highlights offered at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, opening this week.
The web shop window: An aesthetic movement side chair
06 March 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online.
Connect Fair: Event run by dealers for dealers
06 March 2023Organisers of Connect Fair also take part as exhibitors among a ‘young and lively’ group from across the UK
First taste of Worcester since 2001 for London dealer Albert Amor
06 March 2023Albert 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.
5 Questions with jewellery dealer Saul Greenstein
06 March 2023Saul Greenstein started trading in 2001 and has been dealing from Grays antiques centre of Mayfair, London, for the past 15 years.
David Messum Fine Art hosts Arthur Knighton-Hammond exhibition
06 March 2023A 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.
Fresh faces join The Blanchard Collective in Wiltshire
06 March 2023Two new dealerships have joined The Blanchard Collective of Froxfield, Wiltshire: Peter Cosby, as The Madison Gallery, and Sarah Howard, a local artist and dealer.