MADAM – I am writing to say how much I greatly enjoyed your two recent bumper issues: your books special (ATG No 2290) and the edition featuring the dealer round table (ATG No 2291).
Both issues made very satisfying reading, especially for those of us living on the outer reaches of the old British Empire. We just don’t have anything like the established, structured British system with its trade organisations and high-end, vetted fairs.
The closest vetted fair for us in Vancouver is the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show, which is a thousand miles away and held just once a year. There is nothing major in Seattle, with just Portland hosting a large collectables fair which has a few great dealers who wouldn’t be out of place anywhere in the antiques world.