What makes a HAPPY ANTIQUES DEALER? 

Dear Janet and David, What a lucky antiques dealer to have David Harper swing by your beautiful showroom. Nice interview! Thank you for showing us around!

Lovely tour! Thanks for showing us this beautiful dealer, she's got a pretty collection

Love the chest of drawers appretice peace … and like her I passionate about China ! Thank for sharing!

That was a lovely interview.

We find anything made by Shelley is super popular with Chinese buyers.

Chatelaines are very popular now in the fashion history world and re enactment and cosplaying scene.

Happy antiques dealer? Piles of new stuff to dig through with piles of stories. When I'm out hunting I'm using my eyes and my "nose"; I say I buy things that make my nose twitch. Even if you don't know what something is, sometimes it will "smell" good. As Janet says, trading is a good way to keep your own home collection under control. Once you've figured out the story, it's time to move it on and make room for the next mystery. Traditional stuff - if it turns up on a popular show on telly somewhere, it starts to sell. If it's exotic-looking to the buyer, it sells. Chess sets were hot here for a while; there was a show on streaming about a female chess player (if memory serves) and off they went. No wonder the china sets went off to Japan and Taiwan. British porcelains were never sold there; they'd too much of their own!