Fairs and Markets

Antiques fairs and markets offer a great way to browse and buy.

With so many exhibitors or stallholders in one place you can view a lot of different items quickly and compare prices and quality.

Depending on the event, the first day or morning may be for reserved for trade buyers before the general public gain access.

Some antiques markets are held weekly whereas some fairs may be quarterly, biannual, once a year or have some other frequency. Check the Calendar section of this website for details or view the listings every week in the Antiques Trade Gazette newspaper.

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Corn Hall weekly call for antiques and collectables market

29 September 2025

A lively antiques and collectables market has run weekly for the past 40 years in Cirencester’s 19th century Corn Hall in the centre of the town.

Fair rows off to new venue

29 September 2025

Established last year, a vintage and antiques fair which ran at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley is relocating to Lillibrooke Manor in Cox Green, Maidenhead, due to the museum’s permanent closure last month.

Visitors at the York National Book Fair.

‘The best book event in the whole of the UK’

29 September 2025

Dealers full of praise for annual York fair as international and trade buyers snap up their wares

Les Lanceurs de Pierrers (The Stone Throwers), a 19th century stipple engraving with contemporary watercolouring

Tents event covers antiques buys

29 September 2025

Biannual Herefordshire fair now in its 12th year is held in a large marquee at country house location

FAB Paris opening day

FAB Paris opens for the first time with an earlier autumn date 

23 September 2025

More than 100 exhibitors at FAB Paris welcomed visitors to the Grand Palais for the fourth edition of the fair.

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Dealers travel far and wide to source tribal art works

22 September 2025

Driving for hours along remote desert tracks is part of the job for Alexandra O’Brien of Bay Gallery Home, a contemporary Aboriginal art gallery in the Cotswolds.

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Newark fair: the big deal since 1985

22 September 2025

The huge fair in in Nottinghamshire is still renowned for its sheer scale, diverse visitor base and key selling opportunities

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Northern Antiques Fair: Leyburn links up the north

22 September 2025

Auction firm venue means fair ‘reaches a larger pool of people’ in the region than previous Harrogate base

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Previews of sales surrounding Coinex

22 September 2025

Coinex, the most important event on the British calendar for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square on September 26-27

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Battersea's Decorative Fair celebrates 40 years in business

15 September 2025

The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park is celebrating 40 years in business and the autumn edition on September 30 to October 5, is expected to attract a star-studded crowd as usual.

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Textiles can ‘make a room’, says dealer ahead of big annual specialist London event

15 September 2025

Launched in 2009, the annual 'London Antique & Vintage Textile Fair' run by the Textile Society will welcome 60-plus dealers to Chelsea Old Town Hall on Sunday, October 12, where the room will be crammed with textiles from the sedate 18th century to the swinging 1960s.

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Flea market itching to go at Wembley

15 September 2025

Such a spark has been ignited by Mark Farhall’s pop-up Giant London Fleas held in the car park at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park sports complex in Hackney, east London, that he’s launching another.

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Decorative Fair memories four decades later

15 September 2025

Who best to ask about how the fair has evolved than Wakelin & Linfield, stalwarts since the very first?

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Dealers full of praise for new venue in Suffolk

15 September 2025

Lomax Fairs holds several events in schools now and the latest in Suffolk has been warmly welcomed

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Pals team up for Art Deco dealing in Woking

15 September 2025

Visitors will be packing the aisles at Grandma’s Attic’s antiques and collectors’ fair at Woking Leisure Centre on Sunday, October 5, where among the 160 confirmed stallholders, 30-plus are selling specifically Art Deco and Nouveau plus Mid-century stock.

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European postcard dealers descend on Surrey

08 September 2025

“We’ve had a good year,” said Clive Baker, organiser of the biannual two-day South of England Postcard Fair run on behalf of the Postcard Traders Associatiom (PTA).

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US fair aims for a more inclusive approach

08 September 2025

New York fair 'Salon Art + Design' is making some tweaks behind the scenes as the brand expands.

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Taylor Swift shock revelation… famous engagement ring used to be something else

08 September 2025

When American Footballer Travis Kelce proposed last month in a flower-bedecked arbour to singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, much of the press focus was on the heritage and rarity of the ring.

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FAB Paris hopes to take advantage of new date in a ‘wonderful month for the arts’

08 September 2025

For its fourth edition, 'FAB Paris', the premier French art fair that unites 'Biennale des Antiquaires' and 'Fine Arts Paris', brings a wealth of top exhibitors, special exhibitions and a new date.

Grantham brocante back in play

08 September 2025

With its expansive lawns, walled garden and riverside meadow, the Grade I-listed Grantham House, a townhouse hidden away in the centre of the Lincolnshire place of the same name, is the perfect spot for an antiques event.

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