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Buying Antique Glass

Will Farmer, Fieldings Auctioneers, at Broadfield House Glass Museum

Buying Glass from Dealers and Antique Fairs

The following is a list of dealers and retailers who buy and sell antique, second-hand and collectable glass.  For the new collector, it is probably best to start buying glass from a dealer who is a member of LAPADA (the Association of Art and Antique Dealers) or BADA (the British Antique Dealers' Association).  Please contact the dealers directly to check whether they are members.

Although bargains can still be found in markets and car boot sales, sufficient expertise is needed to spot a treasure in the mass.  Bargains can also be made at auctions, both in the auction houses and on-line.  There are many on-line auction sites but the most popular is probably eBay, which regularly has a large number of glass items on offer. 

You will find a list of local auction houses on the Valuing Your Glass page.  Many auction houses' sales and antiques fairs are advertised in The Antiques Trade Gazette, a weekly newspaper, and The Collector, a specialist antiques magazine that also has a dealers directory with maps. Many of the larger fairs and antique events are also listed on the internet newspaper for the British antiques trade.

Dealers and fairs:

  • Alfies Antique Market, 13 - 25 Church Street, Marylebone, London NW8 8DT, tel: 020 77236066, http://www.alfiesantiques.com/ (Over 200 dealers of antiques and collectables.)

  • Andrew Lineham Fine Glass, The Mall, Camden Passage, London N1 8ED, tel: (Wednesday & Saturday) 020 7704 0195 (other times) 01243 576 241, http://www.antiquecolouredglass.com/ (British and Continental antique coloured glass, specialist in Bohemian, Stevens & Williams and cameo scent bottles.)

  • Antiquarius, 131 - 141 King's Road, London SW3, tel: 020 78233900, http://www.antiquarius.co.uk/. (Antiques Centre with 120 dealers including glass.)

  • Artemis Decorative Arts Ltd, 36 Kensington Church Street, London W84 BX, tel: 020 73760377 or 020 79379900, http://www.artemislondon.com/ (Dealers in decorative arts 1880 - 1950 including glass.)

  • Beverley, 30 Church Street, London NW8, tel: 020 72621576. (19th & 20th century glass.)

  • The Country Seat, Huntercombe Manor Barn, Nr Henley on Thames, Oxon RG9 5RY, tel: 01491 641349, and White Friars Glass, http://www.thecountryseat.com/ (Dealers in architect designed furniture from the 19th and 20th centuries and related art pottery, metalwork and glass including Whitefriars)

  • DMG Antiques Fairs, IACF, PO Box 100, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1DJ, tel: 01636 702326, http://www.dmgantiquefairs.com/ (Organisers of fairs in Malvern, Wembley, Shepton Mallet, Detling, Ardingly and Brunel, and the Newark International Antiques & Collectors' Fairs)

  • Little Theatre Antiques Centre, Fern Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tel: 0191 209 4321, (Specialises in North-East and Pearline pressed glass)

  • Jeanette Hayhurst Antique Glass, 32a Kensington Church Street, London W8 4HA, tel: 0207938 1539, http://www.antiqueglass-london.com/ (Specialises in British and European antique glass including post-war period) 

  • J. Parker-Welch, 10 Broadmeadow Ride, St Ippolytts, Hitchin, Herts SG4 7ST (Dealer in pressed glass)

  • M. Alford, 18 Strine Close, Wellington, Shropshire TF1 3LR (Dealer in pressed glass)

  • Mark J. West, P.O. Box 595, Redhill, Surrey RH1 3XB, tel: 01737 643646, http://www.markwest-glass.com/ (Dealer in 18th, 19th and 20th century glass)  

  • M.E. Dickinson, Brockamin, Old Hills, Callow End, Worcestershire WR2 4TQ (Dealer in pressed flint glass)

  • Mr & Mrs Whittingham, 26 Fairmount Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3JR (Dealers specialising in North East, Vaseline and Pearline pressed glass)

  • National Glass Collectors Fair, The National Motorcycle Museum, Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands B92 0EJ, http://www.glassfairs.co.uk/.  (Off Junction 6 of M42). (Includes many different styles and periods. Two fairs per year in May and November)

  • The Northern Glass Collectors' Fair, The Quality Hotel, Scotch Corner, Yorkshire; Organiser Jane Sinclair, tel: 01287 037115 (Once per year, in April)

  • P. Herbert, 14 Fern Close, Ravenshead, Nottingham NG15 9DL (Dealer in pressed glass)

  • R.A. Barnes, Stands D3, 5 & 6, Roger's Antiques Gallery, 65 Portobello Road, London W11, tel: 01844 237388 (Glass dealer, especially Art Nouveau and overlay)

  • R. Crowshaw, 4 Bowshot Close, Castle Bromwich B36 9UH, tel: 0121 6814872 (Dealer in pressed glass)

  • St Martins Antiques Centre, 23a High Street, St Martins, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2LF, tel: 01780 481158, http://www.st-martins-antiques.co.uk/, (Over 60 antiques dealers including glass)

  • Sweetbriar Gallery (Paperweights) Ltd, 56 Watergate Street, Chester, Cheshire CH1 2LA tel: 01244 329 249, (Dealers in paperweights of all periods)

  • Teresa Clayton (TRIO), Shop L24, Gray's in the Mews, 1-7 Davies Mews, London W1K 5AB, tel: 020 74932736, (Dealers in scent bottles and Bohemian glass)

  • The Art Glass Fair, PO box 59619 London, SE22 9XH, info@artglassfair.co.uk (Two fairs per year held at Dulwich College, SE21 7LD)