Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Organisers return to Croydon for another event in an impressive venue
02 March 2020Alison Davis and Alan Old of So Last Century Vintage and Retro Fairs run their London events in suitably historic and interesting buildings.
Held at the Holt
02 March 2020Forty-plus dealers will be converging on the Holt Hotel at Steeple Aston, near Oxford, to stand at Antiques@The Holt on Saturday and Sunday March 14-15.
Fair at Harlequins rugby club sees dealers return to Twickenham
02 March 2020Haddon Events is returning to the Twickenham Stoop, the south-west London home of Harlequins rugby club, for its annual antiques and collectors’ fair.
Call for exhibitors to join Bristol Vintage Photograph Fair
24 February 2020Antiquarian book dealer Hugh Rayner is putting out a call for more exhibitors at the Bristol Vintage Photograph Fair.
Event’s oarsome new venue
24 February 2020Fawley Hill fair relocates down the road to the Meadows where the royal regatta is held
Wilton on the way
24 February 2020Newcomers to the 44-dealer annual Wilton House Antiques Fair include the Vangelli Gallery in London with Asian decorative art, the West Sussex antique dealership Wakelin & Linfield which sells English and Continental furniture and Shine on Design, specialising in Art Deco pieces.
Rare Samuel Shufflebotham work on Llanelly Pottery offered at Carmarthen Showground event
24 February 2020Only about three of these c.1907 Llanelly Pottery rose bowls (below) are known to exist, says dealer Robert Pugh who is pricing the one shown here at £700.
Designer’s textiles revived for the modern day
17 February 2020A UK-based design studio trio last year took over the UK licence to the archive of Florence Broadhurst, an Australian designer whose whirlwind life came to a tragic end in 1977.
York fair organiser launches another event in nearby market town
17 February 2020Born and raised in York, Richard Cawood is the organiser of the city’s triannual 'Antique Home & Vintage Fair' and has now launched a second, smaller event in the nearby East Yorkshire market town of Pocklington.
Continuity reveals details of new Bingley Hall event
10 February 2020As announced in ATG No 2428, Continuity Fairs has taken over the Bingley Hall Antiques Fair, which had been held by IACF at the Staffordshire County Showground from mid-2018 to December 2019.
Revived version of Little Chelsea fair runs for two days with a decorative focus
10 February 2020Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Antiques Fairs is gearing up for the launch of an ambitious new venture.
New antiques centre backs army veterans
10 February 2020An antiques centre specialising in militaria including books has opened in the Bedfordshire town of Biddenham.
Continuity for the venerable Bingley Hall fair
03 February 2020Bingley Hall Antiques Fair at the Staffordshire County Showground will be managed by Continuity Fairs which has taken over the running of it from IACF.
Vintage Valentine cards: a regular sight at ephemera fairs
03 February 2020A clever piece of marketing from the oil company Shell and with slightly saucy automobile-referenced lines, this Valentine dates from a tradition of sending cards to Shell’s female customers who had accounts at their garages. This ran from 1938-75, apart from an interruption during the war years.
The renowned teddy bear expert who has overcome an allergy to soft toys’ fur
03 February 2020For a man who has built his career around teddy bears it is a strange quirk of fate that these inoffensive toys make him feel unwell.
Southampton event moves to new hotel venue
03 February 2020Grandma’s Attic Fairs has announced that its quarterly antiques and collectors’ fairs at the Botleigh Grange Hotel in Southampton have ceased due to the hotel’s sudden closure in mid-January, although a new venue has been found.
Phoenix Antiques owner launches fair in Petersfield
03 February 2020A dealer in the antiques-rich town of Petworth is launching a vintage, antiques and militaria fair in her hometown of Petersfield in Hampshire.
Organiser Bentleys Fairs holds another 1920s themed event in Brighton
27 January 2020To celebrate the centenary this year of the Roaring Twenties, Sharon Blagrove of Bentleys Fairs is adding a second themed 1920s event in Sussex to her portfolio this year.
Mountie up for the 10-day Paris fair
27 January 2020BiblioMania has been running for six years in Paris and this biannual 80-exhibitor fair is a magnet for book and ephemera lovers, principally for the sheer variety of the stock on offer.
Pop Up Vintage Fairs launch new Islington event
27 January 2020Another new fair launch, this time from Pop Up Vintage Fairs.