Fairs and Markets

Sara Hughes is delighted that her Vintage, Antiques and Militaria Fair at Petersfield’s Festival Hall is finally going ahead on Sunday, September 27, with 50 dealers.

Top tips from IACF’s Ardingly International Antiques & Collectors Fair.

B2B Events is truly back on the road, said director Helen Yourston after the turnout at the first Malvern Flea since lockdown at the Three Counties Showground on Monday, August 31.

Focus on how one antiques centre survived and now thrives by being prepared to adapt

Sunbury fair debut on London SW19 playing fields draws the Sunday punters after swift launch

Though the first human in-socket artificial eyes were created by Venetian glassmakers c.16th century, the earliest evidence of ocular prosthesis was found in a female burial plot in Shahr-I Sokhta, Iran – dating back to 2900-2800 BC.

The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair (September 11-13), is a big step towards getting back to business as usual for many dealers and collectors.

The two-day Hackney Fleamarket is back at Abney Hall on Stoke Newington’s Church Street with all sorts of vintage pieces including lighting (as in this picture below), suitcases, posters, maps, furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery and records.

'Firsts, London’s Rare Book Fair' has announced a second digital staging to take place this month.

Cornish event returns for second staging after ‘excellent response’ from dealers and visitors

Organisers of the Parcours des Mondes decided to go ahead with this edition instead of heading online – but only after careful deliberation

Nearly six months after doors closed on the last major British antiques fair, another is ready to open.

Following the cancellation of the popular vintage bazaars at the Cheese and Grain arts centre in Frome, Somerset, textiles dealers Liz van Hasselt and Clare Powell have been doing the next best thing: organising the events online via Instagram.

Organiser of events across the country has fingers crossed for fairs scheduled later in 2020.

MADAM – I note with interest that the Firsts London rare book fair is on the move again (News, ATG No 2454).