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Our popular theme of Antique Shops Then & Now continues with part IV. This time we look to Scotland and one of the largest antique dealing businesses in Scotland, John Bell of Aberdeen.
Below is John Bell’s shop at 56-58 Bridge Street, Aberdeen in the 1950s.
Wishing all our many readers (this year more than 15,000 of you!) a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Our Christmas image this year is a photograph of the Christmas window display of the well-known antique dealers Norman Adams, who were established in Boston, USA in 1923 before opening their famous shop in Hans Road, London (next to Harrods) in ...
Our theme of ‘Antique Shops Then and Now’ continues with part III. The main antique shop ‘Then and Now’ focus is ‘Shirley Brown’ – an antique shop in Tredington, Warwickshire. Shirley Brown was established in 1923 in Shirley in the West Midlands. Our friend, the antique dealer David Love of Harrogate, who initially worked in his mother’s antique shop, Araxie Love in Shipston-...
Our friend Chris Coles very kindly sent me a photograph of the antique dealer J. Rochelle Thomas (thank you Chris!), and as it’s quite unusual to have photos of historical antique dealers I thought I’d make a blog post about Rochelle Thomas – as you’ll see, he was a very important dealer, but appears (like most of the important dealers of the past) to have been lost to histor...
Our collections of antique dealer ephemera continues to grow, with the latest addition a sales brochure/catalogue produced by a dealer previously unknown to us (that in itself is most unusual!). The catalogue is undated (as are many of these dealer catalogues) but seems to have been published sometime in the early 1920s. The previously unknown dealer is ‘The Furniture and Fin...