HAVING produced the Antique Furniture Index since 1968, expert and author John Andrews has, at the age of 80, decided to end his annual audit of the trade.
Dealers and auctioneers alike have found the AFI – published by the Antique Collectors’ Club magazine Antique Collecting and reproduced in the pages of the Antiques Trade Gazette – to be an invaluable source of insight into the market for furniture.
Complete with graphs and comparisons, John Andrews’ analysis of 1400 pieces of standard Georgian and Victorian cabinetmaking sold over a year made for heartening reading in the boom years. His analysis over the years showed antique furniture prices rose faster than property in south-east England.