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Thanks to the ongoing craze for all things vintage, antique fairs are enjoying a surge in popularity.
While visitors to Newark have risen by 21 percent since 2009, Ardingly has attracted 28 percent more in that period.
From Telegraph.co.uk:
The advantages to an antique-hunting day trip are clear: inspiring stands (some styled up to rival the Fulham shop windows they supply), unparalleled choice, exceptional prices.
But, if you are intending to trawl thousands of stalls in a day, says designer Kit Kemp, who is already composing her next Newark wishlist, you need a plan of campaign. “You have to be careful you don’t get carried away. It’s a good idea to go with an area in mind.”
Kit, who furnishes the super-stylish Firmdale hotels with a mixture of vintage and modern pieces, targets antiques that sit well in a contemporary interior. “I love old weathervanes and workbenches that used to hold lathes, really good, solid pieces of oak or sycamore. If you just sand them down, they look fabulous, quite sculptural.”
Interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch finds Ardingly particularly inspiring. “It is a very decorative fair as well as being cosmopolitan, with exhibitors from France and eastern Europe.” She buys “rustic dining tables with zinc tops and old grain sacks which can be used for upholstery”.
Edward Cruttenden, who runs the Sunbury Antiques Fair at Kempton Park racecourse, reckons he knows the reason why: “I think recently vintage has really seen an upturn. With more designers talking about it and famous people buying vintage, the younger generation is becoming ever more attracted to it.”
Posted in Collectibles, Reviews Tags: antique, antique fairs, antiques, antiques fair, vintage No Comments »Antiques, vintage pieces, and collectables are putting Wollondilly shire on the tourist map.
Wollondilly is fast becoming a popular tourist attraction for the weird and wonderful items that can be found in the town’s antique and collectable shops.
From Mmacarthur-chronicle-wollondilly.whereilive.com.au:
In celebration of the historical items which can be found, Wollondilly Heritage Centre and Museum launched a new brochure on Thursday.
The Wollondilly Treasure Trail brochure takes residents on a 13-stop tour of the shire’s hot spots for gifts, souvenirs, memorabilia, antiques, plants and collectables.
Heritage centre and museum marketing manager Louisa Singleman said the brochure would help promote tourism.
Gang Gang Tours already has agreed to host day trips based around the brochure’s trail.
“It is sort of an historic tour, but more about seeing all the places to buy gifts, collectables and antiques,” she said. “The trail starts at at Antique Collectables and goes up to The Oaks Heritage Centre, through shops in Picton, to Thirlmere’s gift shop and Tahmoor’s garden shop and also covers the Wollondilly Arts Group.”
“We are all for anything to promote Wollondilly – to get us on the map.” Ms Crawn said her shop was like stepping back in time – the store stocks quality vintage, art deco and antique items, including clothing, jewellery, furniture and other knick-knacks. “We have been here for 14 years and we are between antiques and one-of-a-kind unique vintage items … we have people from England that come back (regularly),” she said.
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A major producer of antique shows in North America, US Antique Shows, announced on July 1 that The Annual Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch Show will be returning to the Miami Beach Convention Center on October 14-16, 2011.
The show that has been held in Miami for 19 success years will be featuring spectacular antique, vintage and estate jewelry, and watch collections, showcasing some of the most popular trends in jewelry and watches.
From Sacbee.com:
Many of Miami’s antique collectors, as well as local celebrities and socialites, will be in attendance to view and purchase spectacular colored pearls, Victorian brooches, antique earrings, necklaces and bracelets, rare jewels and gemstones with royal provenances, unique signed designer pieces, from top designers such as of Cartier, Rolex, Tiffany & Co, Harry Winston, David Webb, Patek Philippe and Van Cleef & Arpels, as well as exquisite timepieces.
“This show is unique in that it kicks off antique shopping season,” said Andrea Canady, Fair Director for US Antique Show’s The Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch Show . She added: “For dealers it represents the opportunity to purchase rare and unique jewelry and watches from some of the world’s most impressive collections before the important Christmas season. For buyers, it is an opportunity to buy one of kind, jewelry and watches not easily found anywhere else.”
The show hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, October 14th and Saturday, October 15th, and 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 16th, 2011. There is a one-time admission fee of $15 valid for all three days of the show.
The Main Street antique shop of Bob Weber is more of a museum than a retail store and Weber has been doing more buying than selling since the economy tanked a few years ago.
“This business did really good for four or five years until the economy chopped the legs off local spending,” Weber said. “I haven’t sold much, but I’ve made some great purchases.”
From Ravallirepublic.com:
Visitors include serious collectors, people doing historical research and those wanting to sell antique or unique treasures.
“That’s the best part, when people come to sell me stuff,” he said.
His shop is home to the Hamilton Café sign that graced the space above the Ford’s Department Store women’s section. The towering treasure was the first neon sign in Hamilton and inspired frequent customer Hank Williams Jr. to write an album by the same name. The front cover of the album, also hanging in Weber’s shop, features Hamilton’s earliest neon lights.
Weber is very proud of his corner dedicated to Hamilton police and sheriff’s memorabilia including historic photos of marshals, criminals and evidence of the evolution of peacekeeping. His display includes billy clubs, handcuffs, badges, patches and Montana code books.
Weber named his own little store “Burnt Forty Collectibles” after a Hamilton historical story that makes him chuckle.
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Antique dealers in Dorking’s West Street have expressed their sadness and frustration over the latest raid at a store. This was after Surrey Hills Antique Centre, an antique shop, was targeted by thieves.
Thieves managed to take out £15,000 of silver and jewelry including sapphires, pearls, and diamonds from a cabinet.
From Getsurrey.co.uk:
Forensics officers have also been at the scene, and police are not ruling out a link to recent thefts at Talbot House Antiques Centre, a few doors along.
Georgian silver worth thousands of pounds was stolen in a 4.30am raid there in January.
The Talbot House store was then targeted again in March, and manager Jackie Cooper-Grundy said she could relate to Mr Allaker’s frustration.
“It makes you feel very uncomfortable and demoralised,” she said. “But there are always dishonest people in the world who will do things like this.
“If you run a business with a shop that sells valuable items there will always be people trying to steal them. It’s a fact of life unfortunately.”
Detective Constable Vicki Morris said: “This is the third burglary in West Street this year and it is vital members of the antiques trade work with us to trace all the valuable items stolen.
“If you are in the trade and are offered items of jewellery for sale, please be cautious as they may have originated from this burglary.”
Members of the general public are requested to share any relevant information to caught thieves by calling Surrey Police on 0845 125 2222, quoting reference MV/10/2365, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Dozens of potential bidders for 25,000 orphaned treasures from Tavern on the Green were admitted for the first time to the shuttered, bankrupt landmark restaurant in Central Park on Wednesday.
The bidders previewed next week’s 3-day auction of 1,000 lots of items that have been valued in the range of $100 to $1.2 million.
From Dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com:
The preview of the sale — called a nonreserve auction because there was no presale estimate of the prices of individual objects — is expected to attract more than 1,000 visitors and, ultimately, many hundreds of bidders.
Although Mr. Ettinger declined to put a specific value on the offerings, a Sotheby’s appraisal of a portion of the LeRoy inventory a few years ago estimated the value at $8.17 million, including $1.2 million for the leaded-glass ceiling of Maxwell’s Plum that was eventually moved to the Russian Tea Room (both restaurants were owned by Mr. LeRoy) and $300,000 for the antique green-crystal chandelier that is the centerpiece of the Crystal Room.
Although many dealers critically gauged the preview merchandise hoping to resell it, Joanna Figlia, who lives in Manhattan, had a more personal connection: she and her husband, Peter, were married in Tavern on Oct. 18, 1998. “But I see some pieces that would be possible,” she said, for the shelves of her antique store in Huntington, W.Va., Hattie and Nan’s.
Visitors meandered though a cornucopia of Tavern memorabilia during the preview lasting for eight hours.
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If you are new to the world of antiques and collectibles and want to find out how to differentiate between genuine antiques and replicas, this information will be more than useful to you.
Before we start the journey of this article, it is important for us to know that the task of differentiating between genuine antiques and replicas is not simple and you need to consider some factors before making the right purchase. This is primarily because most sellers of collectibles and antiques tend to intentionally deceive customers to earn quick and easy money.
You may face sellers who try selling a product terming it as collectible by soaking linens in tea or beating a furniture piece with a chain to make it aged, worn, or weathered. You may visit an antique store to find out large number of one antique, be alert as you may enter into a fake deal 90 out of 100 times.
The best way you can avoid fake deals is by educating yourself about antique and collectibles. You can read books on how to identify genuine antiques, ask questions from antique store owners, and seek advice from experienced antique collectors, and so on. If you have to wait for a few hours or days before making a purchase, do not be afraid to do it as that will help you buy real antiques and get complete value for your hard-earned money.
We hope that this information on difference between genuine antiques and replicas helped you gain valuable insights.
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