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More faces lined up for Olympia

Thomas Del Mar.

A charity which has sponsored an armourer, a gunmaker and many other metalworkers is the very appropriate cause being supported by The Antique Arms Fair at Olympia.

The event, launched last September by arms and armour specialist Thomas Del Mar and his team at 25 Blythe Road, is being held for the second time on April 21 at the Pillar Hall at Olympia Exhibition Centre. Del Mar says: “This year we will be joined by representatives from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, a charity that we are keen to support given its obvious links to the subject. There has been considerable interest since last October and we will be welcoming back an almost full complement of the previous exhibitors along with a few more.”

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