As ever, specialist fairs featured in the column this year, including: the Textile Society, World Paper Money, Midcentury Modern, BBR’s bottle and advertising material events, Antique Scientific Instruments and the Ephemera Society.
In May, we ran a story about a sketchbook by the Bavarian artist George Johann Scharf (1788-1860) whose widow sold 1000 of his drawings and watercolours to the British Museum. The sketchbook was found by the Ephemera Society’s chair, dealer Val Jackson-Harris at a Sunbury Antiques Market, and this story was picked up by the national press.