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WINTER OLYMPIA DATE FOR NATIONAL ANTIQUES WEEK
Posted by IAIN BRUNT on 08/03/2010
WINTER OLYMPIA DATE FOR NATIONAL ANTIQUES WEEK
The date for National Antiques Week will now be 15-21 November 2010. The revised date was agreed last week when the committee met to discuss plans for this year following the news that Clarion Arts have kindly agreed to host one of the events at Winter Olympia, (15-21 November).
Full details of events and the theme for 2010 will be announced during March.
GARTH VINCENT ON GUARD AT LINDEN HALL
Among the twenty-five LAPADA and BADA member exhibitors at The Luxury Antiques Weekend at Linden Hall near Morpeth, Northumberland from 12-14 March, 2010, will be Garth Vincent, antique arms and armour dealer from Lincolnshire who has a superb example of a German footman's armour, c 1575, priced at £25,000. Garth will also offer visitors the opportunity to own a Colt pistol, used in the American Civil War, complete with the original owner's name engraved on the back-strap..."W. J.Willkinson Topeka Kansas 1856." Other pieces include long guns, flintlock pistols, sabres and Japanese swords. On Saturday 13 March, experts from the Alnwick-based Hotspur School of Defence is demonstrating fencing techniques taken directly from historical manuals, using some of the period swords displayed by Garth Vincent Antique Arms and Armour including rapier, broadsword and smalls word. There will also be copies of original fencing manuals on display for the public to view.
