Amanda Allinson with her pug Harper. The dealer named her Darlington online antiques and vintage business using her first name combined with the word Duke, this being what her first pet pug was called.
Offered on the Allinson Duke website, this detail is of the top of a Victorian X-framed leather-covered stool, believed to be Scottish, which costs £190 and is worked with a coat-of-arms, thistles and the word Courage.
As with many collectors and dealers, the antiques passion started in an auction room. As a child, some of Amanda Allinson’s earliest memories are of sitting with her grandma in the County Durham rooms of Addisons Auctioneers in Barnard Castle, the town where she grew up.