Picture This!

October 6, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello again!

Well, on a day where a picture almost self destructs at a major auction house, here is one I am researching, and finding a frame for before I can offer it for sale, most likely at slightly less than a million pounds Stirling, but if someone offered that I could include a free shredder, paper or garden mulcher even!

I am struggling to read the inscription above the picture, but believe it says “Published 1822 (1922?) The Museum Galleries, 20 Museum Street, London. W0 Copyright”

Although signed in pencil, it is very faint, but I do like the embossed markings to one corner. These photographs will be enough for tonight, but when all said and done I actually like this, and feel as though I should know the place, but yet I don’t know where it is, yet!

Happy Researching for me!

Have a good weekend, and we will be on show in Bibury on Sunday 7th October!

Pop in and say hi and ask for a panini from a brand new kitchen accessory!

Regards, Andy.

Almost time!

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello again!

We’re back this Sunday, October 7th, opening at 10am, closing at 4pm.

Refreshments served from around 1130.

Stalls selling lots of goodies! Here is a clock which was for sale last month, will it still be for sale?

See you there, we’re at Bibury Village Hall.

Regards, Andy.

Pinch, Punch, First of the month! (Again!).

October 1, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello all.

The title was a saying of a dealer many of us used to know, and it’s still around, when I remember! My post today is to remind, or inform about our next event, this Sunday on October 6th in Bibury Village Hall.

Refreshments served by Angela will include panini as the weather gets cooler, and hot sandwich and soup may just well be ideal!

Here is a photograph of a stand a couple of months ago, and who hopes to return to us in the spring. It shows an example of the variety of items we do get. Hope you like it.

Regards, Andy.

A Fuschia Sale?

September 25, 2018September 25, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello all!

Here I’m showing a photo taken a while ago, (the fuschia is the flower in the background), but oddly enough all the items are still for sale, and thought it about time I showed them off! Oak, Yew and Silver. I may bring them to Bibury on October 7th, pop in and find out if I do! The stool looks a bit better now as I have been waxing it occasionally!

We are at the Church end of the village, opposite end to The Swan Hotel, and refreshments are served from around noon, by our friend, including eggs form her own hens!

See you there? Regards, Andy.

Moving in soon!

August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello again!

The weather is getting cooler in the evenings, and the nights are drawing in sooner, the solar lights switching themselves on earlier. So I’m thinking of moving inside more, although tonight the sky is rather good already.

Wonder if I could live in here, this manor house will be for sale at Bibury this Sunday, 2nd September. Pop along and see if it suits maybe it’s a miniature of where you live already?

Maybe see you soon?

Regards, Andy.

Lion or Fo?

August 28, 2018August 28, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello again.

Our next event will be this Sunday, September 2nd, and we will be on show from 10am, pop in and see us. One new standholder tomus will be bringing a selection of Staffordshire Pottery, also, as often is the case, we have a selection of items for sale, including jewellery, glass, ceramics, smaller furniture,and items made from brass, including these “Lion Dogs” or “Dogs of Fo”.

Maybe see you there, refreshments are served too.

Regards, Andy.

A little bit of Staffordshire comes to Gloucestershire!

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello again!

I am pleased to say that we have Lawrence Bunn joining us for our September 2nd Bibury Antiques Fair. Lawrence is a dealer and collector of Staffordshire, and this will be his first fair with us in Bibury.

Here are a few photographs of some of his stock which he will be bringing with him, there will be more. Pop along and see, he is bringing a rather nice manor house with him too, I’ll add that next week, but if you fancy a new home, they will be one for sale!

Regards, Andy.

“Little Reading” perhaps?

August 15, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello all.

I’m pleased to say that looking into the future, I can see the next fair at Bibury Village Hall is full again!

Pop along on 2nd September to see us, we open at 10am and close at 4pm. Refreshments are available. Stallholders items include Jewellery, Glassware, Brassware, Ceramics, Staffordshire Pottery, Metalware, and Furniture too!

Here is a Gypsy Table which will be there for sale, I’ve just photographed it today. Made in Coldstream, by Robert Bennet, called a Gypsy Table as they were often used by fortune tellers, and travelling folk, as the legs unscrew for easy transportation, and to save space. Now there is an idea!

Regards, Andy.

All set and in “Tip Top” Condition!

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello again!

Always busy the week before a fair, and I’m very proud of our Bibury Fair, and so pleased to say again we are full despite some people off on holiday, so I think it’s fair to say we are in “Tip Top” condition!

Some people call, this Plum Pudding Mahogany, but this year I think in August that’s just not right, maybe in November or December, certainly not in this heat! Way too warm for Brandy Butter!

Here is a clue…..

Is this the best view? I don’t know!

Upright and better colour!

Trying to catch the colour!

Still trying to catch the colour!

Tilt Top in the sun!

It’s a summer-var stand!

August 1, 2018 / Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Well, strictly not, but as ever I can’t resist a bad pun!

Recently I have tidied up a small stand for a client and to their delight, I called it a Samovar Stand, possibly the prettiest one I have ever had to improve, and so I hope you like it too.

Despite the heat and a chaotic summer, I am still restoring furniture, and keeping bees, and I’ll have a few photographs of my work on show at Bibury Village Hall this Sunday, August 5th, between 10 am and 4pm. Yes, refreshments are available, so pop in and say “hi” over a cup of coffee or tea!

Regards, Andy.