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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Battersea Decorative fair welcomes celebrity shoppers and weathers train strike woes

10 May 2024

The first day of the Battersea Decorative Fair is always a place to celebrity spot as well as see a comprehensive range of art and antiques.

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The intriguing Ingoldsby Legends were indeed unreal

06 May 2024

Dealer Sky Duthie brings an Arts & Crafts movement binding of The Ingoldsby Legends to this year’s PBFA London Summer Book Fair.

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It’s just your calotype: an introduction for enthusiasts

06 May 2024

As well as his usual commercial stand at Photo London this year, Robert Hershkowitz stages a special exhibition on French calotype.

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Physical attractions on display at Firsts fair

06 May 2024

Theme of Firsts fair centres on works not being seen just as reading material but things of beauty

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New art fair: ‘Everyone bit our hand off to take part’

06 May 2024

There is a new fine art event in town this month as dealers unveil The Little London Art Fair.

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Hurrah for a Suffragette vesta case for sale at Derbyshire fair

06 May 2024

A vesta case decorated with a campaigning Suffragette is among the highlights at the Buxton Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair.

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Adams looks back on 35 years of Horti fairs

06 May 2024

When Matthew Adams started out as a dealer in the early 1980s, the constant cry from fellow dealers was “there are too many fairs”, he says.

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Potting and pottering with an East Sussex brocante

06 May 2024

The biannual Potting Shed Brocantes in East Sussex returns this spring.

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Reclamation and antiques dealer joins up with Norwich department store

06 May 2024

An owner of reclamation centre has set up shop at the invitation of a renowned Norwich retailer.

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Parking problems addressed at Giant Shepton Flea

29 April 2024

The nursery rhyme 'Rain, rain go away' could be the response after the UK experienced in the past 18 months the fourth-wettest period since records began.

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Photographica fair: market develops in different ways

29 April 2024

One of the exhibitors at this month’s Photographica says ‘point and shoot’ cameras are in demand

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Glass and ceramics combo makes a second appearance in West Midlands

29 April 2024

Richard Burtonshaw launched his sold-out Premier Glass Fairs event last year at the Ruskin Glass Centre in Stourbridge and now he’s back in the Midlands on Sunday, May 12.

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The Treasure House Fair hopes to ease Brexit red tape

22 April 2024

The Treasure House Fair hopes to tempt more overseas exhibitors to future fairs with a new deal designed to make importing and exporting simpler and cheaper.

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Wirksworth beats the weather

22 April 2024

“Despite the awful weather we still had over 50 stalls and our indoor venue, the Memorial Hall was packed,” said Sally-Anne Swindell, organiser of the Wirksworth Antiques in the Street’s early April event in the eponymous Peak District market town.

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Fair ideal for new contacts

22 April 2024

Aspal Antiques launched at the 140-acre Stonham Barns Park near Stowmarket in Suffolk in 2021.

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I saw the potential for growth

22 April 2024

Antiques business takes root in a former chicken house/mushroom farm

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Stoneleigh gets off to a fine start

22 April 2024

Successor event to the Peterborough Celebration of Antiques has plenty of room for expansion

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Probably best not to use this bowl to enjoy drinking wine

22 April 2024

Among the clutch of new exhibitors at the spring Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea is Mary Cooke Antiques, specialist in silver, whose key items include a George IV silver gilt table bowl.

Heath Composition Black, Red, Grey

Year starts with a Modern British bang according to London gallery

19 April 2024

Portland Gallery’s regular look at 20th century art includes its own actions and observations on the wider market

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Pippin work pops in to the 62nd Philadelphia Show

15 April 2024

Horace Pippin (1888-1946), a self-taught black US artist known for images of the First World War, biblical scenes and images of racial segregation, features at 'The Philadelphia Show' this year where his 1944 still-life 'The Love Note' is offered by M Hanks Gallery for $250,000.

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