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Antiquedealersblog title: Antiquedealersblog | A research project investigating the history of the antiques trade in Britain in the 19th & 20th centuries

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The history of antique dealing is littered with fascinating ephemera – dealer catalogues, invoices, letters, drawings and sketches, stock books, sales books and photograph albums. Some of the most interesting survivals are auction sale catalogues, often generated when a dealer makes changes to a business (sales of surplus stock when moving to different premises for example), ...


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Our popular theme of Antique Shops Then & Now continues with part IV. This time we look to Scotland and one of the largest antique dealing businesses in Scotland, John Bell of Aberdeen.

Below is John Bell’s shop at 56-58 Bridge Street, Aberdeen in the 1950s.


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