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Godfrey Giles & Co –‘antique dealers’
Yet more examples of historic ‘antique dealer’ booklets and catalogues keep turning up – this time our friend Thomas Lange, researcher at leading London based antique furniture dealers Ronald Phillips...
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F.G. & C. Collins Antiques 1907-2006
This month’s blog post is one of our occasional series of invited contributors to the Antique Dealer Research Blog. We have a really fascinating blog on the history of the well-known antique dealers...
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More on Samuel Richards: a Nottingham antique dealer 1890s-1920s
Readers of the Antique Dealers’ blog will be aware that we have previously posted a couple blog entries on the antique dealer Samuel Richards (1859-1927) (see blog posts November 2018 & June...
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Early 19th Century Antique & Curiosity Dealers
The history of antique dealing (in it’s modern form at least) can be traced to the opening decades of the 19th century, and as part of the research project on the history of antique dealing we...
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Antique Shops in Visual Culture I
As readers of the antique dealers Blog will know, we’ve been acquiring antique dealer ephemera for many years now – dealer catalogues, photographs and archives, as part of the on-going research...
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Antique Shops in Visual Culture II
Following on from the last Blog Post (which seemed to go down very well with readers), I thought I would continue the theme of Antique Shops in visual culture and focus on a few more images of antique...
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10 Years of the Antique Dealers Blog!
This month, October 2023, is a significant moment for the Antique Dealers Research Blog – it’s our ANNIVERSARY!….we are 10 years old this month! Our first post was back on 25th October 2013 – a small,...
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Antique Shops in Visual Culture III
Our thread on ‘Antique Shops in Visual Culture’ seems to be very popular with readers of the Antique Dealers Research blog, so here’s the third instalment (the last for a little while at least). If...
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Part of the Furniture: The Library of John Bedford – exhibition
Exciting news for the forthcoming start of 2024 – I’ve curated a new exhibition (with Rachel Eckersley, rare book specialist at the Brotherton Library Special Collections and Rhiannon...
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19th century Antique Dealers – William Forrest; William Boore
A very recent acquisition to the growing archive of antique dealer ephemera, gathered as part of the wider antique dealer research project, is a fascinating cache of invoices from the dealer William...
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C W Briggs Antiques, Loughborough
A fairly recent addition to the antique dealer archives is some material associated with the Loughborough based antique dealer C.W. Briggs (1906-1981), acquired in January 2023 at the Nottingham...
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