Salvo Fair 2010
Victorian cast iron bath with mahogany top from Cox's Yard, and in the background the 11ft high figure of Phocion The Good by Austin and Seeley made in 1841 next to a tudorbethan oak frame porch, both from Wish List Antiques on Neil Phillips' stand at this year's Salvo Fair.
Knebworth, Herts UK - Glorious weather, a record number of exhibitors from as far as Hungary, Germany, France, Belgium and Scotland, and plenty of buying visitors from as far as New Zealand, USA and Japan, added up to another successful Salvo Fair at the beautiful location of the deer park at Knebworth House on June 26th and 27th.
The trade morning on Friday 25th started well with a buyer from Portobello Road so keen to be in at 9am that he paid £92 for a small pitch to get an exhibitor pass, and had merrily spent spent several thousand pounds by the official opening time of 11am. After 1pm public were admitted, which meant that many of the smaller mixed stands had recouped their fair costs by Friday evening, when Florian Langenbeck and Thomas Knapp kindly invited exhibitors to a soiree featuring German beer, bread and sausage.
The Saturday was very busy with long queues before opening and a few thousand visitors through the gates during the day. (We will not know the official visitor numbers until Knebworth's accountant has checked everything next week.) That evening the exhibitor get together, sponsored by Salvo, and kindly organised by Peter Watson of Cox's Yard was deemed a great success.
Sunday was, predictably, less busy with the world cup England v Germany match at 3pm, which was shown in a few places live on the fair field. Even so, several stands reported constant sales throughout the match.
Everything was fine until, unfortunately, during the take down, Barry Greenwell broke his leg whilst manoeuvring a marble column. We would like to wish him a speedy recovery.
The next Salvo Fair is scheduled for June 24 - 26 2011.
Next year we plan to beef up the Friday trade day, making it trade only and increasing the ticket price, with no public allowed, but with free invites to international dealers and specifiers in architecture, construction, landscaping, interiors, set creators, hotel and pub trade from around the world. We will also ask exhibitors to bring larger items and more reclaimed building materials samples, and we will once again have an exhibitor cap and reduce the amount of new and repro on the site, which had been noticeably cut down this year.
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Salvo Fair 2010
Gaze Architectural Salvage & Statuary sale this Saturday
Diss, Norfolk UK - Gaze are holding an Architectural Salvage & Statuary sale on Saturday 3 July, starting at 10am with viewing prior. Auctioneer Carl Willows will be running through some 1055 lots which includes garden statuary, york stone paving, turret clocks and statuary.
Lot: 7386 An early 20th Century sandstone figure of the Madonna and child 67" high from the Convent of St Michael, Clacton. Estimated at £3,000 - £4.500.
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Gaze Catalogue
'No Reserves' success at Great Northern Architectural
A sandstone portico, after a long bidding war between a trade and private buyer, was eventually bought privately for £4,600.
Tattenhall, Cheshire UK - Auctioneers Richard Winterton held a sale on Tuesday 29 June on behalf of Penham Excel Bailiffs. The sale consisted of 800 lots of architectural items from Great Northern Architectural Antiques, who have recently gone into liquidation.
Cataloguer and auctioneer for the sale Neil Grenyer said, "As pretty much everything was in without reserve, from an auctioneers point of view it was very successful with very few lots not finding new homes. Viewing was steady throughout Monday and Tuesday morning and around 150-200 people registered to bid either in person, on the telephone or left commission bids..."
The sale was attended by a number of trade buyers.
Drew Pritchard said, "Hot hot hot . . . boiling conditions and mainly trade buyers. Total bedlam as lots were pulled from the sale at the last minute, mainly the star pieces due to ownership issues. A superb stone entranceway was bought for £4,600 plus commission by the wife of the owner of a major home builder for their Cheshire house..."
Some of Drew Pritchard's items from the sale being collected from Tattenhall.
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Richard Winterton
Drew Pritchard
English Heritage fireplace saga
English Heritage is facing scrutiny from Britain’s new coalition government over claims of a conflict of interest which allegedly saw it “abuse” its planning powers in favour of a commercial partner. English Heritage are currently selling self branded reproduction fireplaces. EH says that its organisational structure is designed to protect against conflicts of interest between its commercial activities and its advisory role.
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bd Online
Spencer house excitement
Lot 1002: A George II mahogany, parcel-gilt and painted door, circa 1758-65, attributed to James Athenian Stuart, estimated at £2,000 - £3,000.
South Kensington, London UK - The potential thrill of the unexpected and the serendipitous defines the house contents sale. The Althorp Attic sale is to be held at Christie's on July 7-8 at South Kensington rooms with over 760 lots from the famous Northampton seat of the Spencer family.
The sale includes a number of grand architectural mouldings. Some fragments which are guided at £1,500 - £2,500 are attributed to James Athenian Stuart.
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Christie's Catalogue
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Gaze Next Auction
Sat 3 July 2010
Architectural Salvage & Statuary
Fairs
23 - 26 Sept 2010
The Lapada Fine Art & Antiques Fair
Berkley Square, London
26 - 28 Sept 2010
Decorex
Chelsea, London
Guy Chenevix-Trench of Antiques by Design
28 Sept - 4 Oct 2010
Battersea Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair
Battersea Park, London
Guy Chenevix-Trench of Antiques by Design
1 - 3 Oct 2010
National Home Improvement Show
Earls Court, London
For regular fairs such as Newark and Lincoln please see the SalvoWEB calendar
Auctions
Gaze Architectural Salvage & Statuary
Roydon Road, Diss Norfolk Viewing Thursday prior 2pm - 8pm, Friday 10am - 5pm, sale morning from 8.30am. Tel. 01379 650306 Fax 01379 644313
8 July 2010
Christie's, The Spencer House Sale
South Kensington, London
Exhibitions & Events
6 March - 4 July 2010
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Rd, London
This will be the first major exhibition on Horace Walpole, the most important English collector of the eighteenth century, and will bring together many of his most remarkable objects.
18 - 20 October 2010
Reuse industry comes of age conference
Raleigh, North Carolina USA, A conference organised by Reuse Alliance featuring experts from the reuse industry.
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