“This will be a very sad day for the 30 stallholders, some of whom have been there for all 21 years. A few will continue to trade in other centres and online, while others are retiring.”
Dealer Brian Martin on the closure of Surrey’s Honeypot Antiques Centre this summer after redevelopment plans were announced.
“I have had to cut everything down to the knuckle but there is still a profit to be made out there.”
Mark Seabrook, exhibitor at the upcoming Antiques for Everyone fair.
“The support of major funding bodies such as the National Heritage Memorial Fund has been crucial in meeting our target… We would never have been able to save the vase from leaving the UK without the public’s support.”
Ian Lawley, chairman of Friends of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery when £482,500 was successfully raised to buy Wedgwood’s First Day’s vase and return it to Stoke-on-Trent.
“Cryptocurrencies will provide a bridge from the elitist, centralist fine art market to a decentralised open-source world.”
Cork Street dealer Eleesa Dadiani, who has started accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at her fine art gallery.
“What a great afternoon meeting up with such amazing elephant warriors!”
A comment on the Facebook page of Action for Elephants which held a protest against the ivory trade outside Art & Antique Fair Olympia last Saturday.
