Nottinghamshire

Winter 2024 turned out to be the wettest ever in the UK - which inevitably threw up significant challenges for fair organisers.

International buyers were out in force among the buyers at the busy IACF two-day event

A new antiques centre has opened in a former Baptist chapel in Newark.

Young fair organiser keeps very busy by running three events near Newark under Red Fox banner

The annual Nottingham Tile Fair is a small specialist event with 10 dealers at the upcoming fair in St Jude’s Hall, Mapperley, Nottingham.

Just as the title reads, this album offered by Mellors & Kirk in Nottingham contains Specimens of Needle-Work Executed in the Female Model School, Kildare-Place, Dublin.

David Hall opened Hall Fine Art in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, with his father last year.

An 18th century marble statuette with an extensive provenance emerged at a recent Nottingham auction.

The largest showground fairs are so extensive that it would be impossible to browse items on all the stands in one day. IACF’s Newark Antiques Fair, for example, is held on an 84-acre site with up to 2500 stands.

Early works by Harold Knight (1874-1961) are not seen very often at auction but a group of six appeared at Mellors & Kirk of Nottingham at the end of last year.

Tom Parry runs Chester’s Farm Antiques in Nottinghamshire and specialises in decorative arts, including ceramics, jewellery and silver.

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

International Antiques and Collectors Fairs (IACF) kicked off its return to business with its first event after lockdown.

Revived by Ruth and Paul Thurman last year, the former Field Dog Fairs event held in the Magnus Sports Hall in Newark under the new organisers will run on Sunday, January 26.

Sellers and buyers hit the ground running to make the most of the early-morning bargains

A missing Pugin parliamentary letter box has been returned to the Palace of Westminster more than 100 years after it disappeared.

Well-known dealers Ruth and Paul Thurman were the long-term organisers of Field Dog Fairs, running antiques and collectors’ events across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northants.