Gaze Bygones sale this Saturday

Lot No: 6341 A 19th Century dome cased display of 14 exotic birds Estimate £200 - £300

Norfolk, UK - T W Gaze is holding its regular Rural & Domestic Bygones sale this Saturday at Diss. The 1044 lot sale has old farming machinery and tools, garden tools, advertising signs, kitchenalia, bicycles, gard...

Bench bonkers at Salvo Fair

Cox's Yard English made GWR benches with reclaimed timber seats will be at Salvo Fair this summer

Hertfordshire, UK - This year at Salvo Fair there will be many things to feast your eyes on and have a good rummage through. Cox's Yard have had a stand at Salvo Fair for so many years we have lost count! They have alway...

Wickerman Fest finally puts a price on the head of Jimmy Carr

Suzie of Ribble Rec inside the head of Jimmy Carr [photo © Ribble Rec

Lancashire, UK - It has taken two years, publicity in The Sun newspaper, and two runs of TV's Seeking Salvage, but Ribble Reclamation has finally sold its giant Jimmy Carr head to the Wickerman festival near Du...

Retro kitchen biz is excellent but Source is closing retail shop

Restored 1950s Paul Metalcraft kitchen [photo © Source Antiques

Somerset, UK - Rod Donaldson of Source Antiques in Bath is closing his Green Park Station retail shop at he end of May after more than two years trading, or not trading, there. "We gave it a fair shout," Rod said...

Bag a miniature or the real thing at Architectural Stores sale

Some of the miniature fireplaces for auction at Architectural Stores

Kent, UK - Among the many lots of architectural salvage and antique ornament at The Architectural Stores forthcoming auction sale on 1st June are a dozen or more delightfully collectable miniature iron and brass...

Are You a Salvage Hunter?

Are You a Salvage Hunter? Karyn Sparks, Antique Explorer June 2013 Page 1

Hertfordshire, UK - Karyn Sparks from Antique Explorer has written a wonderful three page preview of this year's Salvo Fair, with photos of the curved ceiling lights that Architectural Forum are bringing along, the early...

Salvo Fair in June's Period Living

Treasure Hunting by Jackie Herald, Period Living June 2013

Hertfordshire, UK - This month's Period LIving magazine features a fab four page article on Salvo Fair, including interviews with newcomers Louisa Sugden from Sugden and Daughters, and Salvo Fair stalwarts Tina Bryan fro...

Head north for Ripley Salvage Show, south for Fawley Steam Fair

Old windows from Philip Silius will be at Ripley [photo © ASFairs

North Yorkshire, UK - Arthur Swallow's second Ripley show is on this weekend and it's strapline is 'An eye for style and a concern for the environment?' Here is more:

Ripley Castle is the place to be for th...

Abandoned pod resort of San Zhi demolished

Abandoned resort pod at Sanzhi prior to demolition [photo cc Leo Chang

Taiwan - The Sanjhih, Sanzhi or San Zhi pod resort near Taipei was started in 1978 by a plastics industrialist who went bankrupt in 1980 and the banks sealed up the site. In 1989, a development company bought ...

Shiver Me Timbers moves to new premises.

Cornwall, UK - Last weekend Joe Gray of Shiver Me Timbers, the cornish salvage yard and antiques shop, organised a big farewell bash for the home of the business for 25 years. In a weekend of festivities including a...