Gaze Rural & Domestic Bygones

Gaze, Diss Norfolk 04 July 2009
Over 1000 lots auctioned by Carl Willows at Gaze auction house.


Above: Lot 6293. A Singer 46K circa 1900 in original bentwood case, excellent Ottoman Carnation decoration, Serial No P362774 it has an estimate of £55 to £65.


Above: Lot 6314. An enamel sign - Petter Oil Engines, estimated at £100 to £150.


Above: Lot 6338. A 15th Century and later tinker's barrow, spoked wheel driving a grindstone with various compartments housing tools and fittings, estimated at £600 to £800.


Above: Lot 6339. A run of three 1930's cinema seats, estimated at £80 to £120.


Above: Lot 7014. A bier - metal spoked wheels, estimated at £150 to £180.

Gaze Rural & Domestic Bygones catalogue

Exploding German balls and big sales at Salvo Fair 2009

Above: Biggest stand and sale went to Ronson Reclaim from Gloucestershire

Salvo Fair 26-28 June 2009, Knebworth House, Herts UK

RONSON Reclaim had the biggest stand at 3,000sqft at Knebworth and the highest single sale at this years fair of £30,000 to a new client on the Sunday. Several dealers reported sales in excess of £10,000 including newcomer Neale Hargreaves of Hargreaves Reclaimed Flooring from Scotland with a sale of reclaimed Travertine floor slabs which came from the Royal Museum in Edinburgh, on offer at £70sqm for 600sqm.

Last year exceeded expectations with the recession looming, and this year we were all slightly nervous, but it was deemed the best yet by most of the dealers present with a constant flood of privates, together with a respectable number of trade buyers, not only on the Friday trade day but throughout the weekend. Among the 67 stands were a sprinkling of Belgian, French, Irish and for the first time this year, German dealers, amongst whose stock were 200 round cast iron balls used in an old mill for crushing pigment. Amazingly, if two balls were thrown against each other they exploded as if a large percussion cap had gone off. No-one has yet explained why but it provided much merriment and one or two near heart attacks during the festivities.

The weather was warm, with rain showers on Friday but none during the weekend, apart from a three hour downpour during the traditional Saturday night exhibitor barbie which did not dampen spirits, although a shortage of food did. Salvo will try to get this right next year.

A new layout was tried, with the grand avenue opening out at the far end into a large square, which will be enlarged and improved next year. Stands are likely to be capped at a maximum of 80 next year, so if you would like a stand please book early. The dates are 25, 26 and 27 June 2010.

Once again our thanks go to this year's two sponsors, Period Living magazine and T W Gaze auctioneers who both turned out in force over the weekend, as well as Wocko and the Knebworth Estate, and all the exhibitors and visitors, who made the fair a pleasure to run.



Above: Robots descend on Salvo Fair 2009 to join the thousands of other visitors who came to rummage amongst the the architectural salvage, garden antiques and reclaimed building materials.




Above: Guy Trench's stand.
Guy said, "Another great fair, thoroughly enjoyed and signs of some good after sales."




Above: Morris interiors stand.
Mark Morris said, "A very successful fair all round the attendance was superb and we did very well. If there was one piece of advice I could give to exhibitors next year it would be to take a mobile credit card machine. Most of our sales were made through it and I believe it generated more sales as the visitors did not have to go off site to get cash."




Above: The stand of Ronson Reclaim
Ron Jones said, "The fair was a complete success, we were very happy, the weather was great and we look forward to next year. The only thing I would suggest for future fairs is to encourage bigger items."




Above: Smiths Architectural Salvage
Tony Smith said, "Another good fair which we very much enjoyed and sold a lot of doors."




Above: The stand of Steptoe's Yard.
Andrew Shorten said, "To all old and new contacts met at the Salvo fair thankyou for making it such an enjoyable weekend and see you next year."


Salvo Fair

The Secret Garden sale

The Secret Garden are having their annual Summer Sale and Open day of antique and salvaged garden ornaments, architectural items and garden features on Saturday 27th June and Sunday 28th June starting 8.00am - 3.30pm (both days).

Shaun Beales of The Secret Garden said, "We have two or three sale weekends a year, this weekend 27th/28th June being the second sale of the year. We have a good mix of antique, vintage and weathered garden ornament with many unusual pieces. This sale features amongst many other pieces an impressive Victorian stone reredos in the form of a church tower, a Victorian sandstone font and a good vintage wrought iron gazebo all in a part garden, part yard setting. So why not pop in on the way to or from the Salvo Fair."

A Grave matter at salvofair

Cox's Architectural Reclamation will be showing just a few of the 260 york stone slabs recently reclaimed from a cemetery in London.

Peter Watson from Cox's Architectural Salvage said, "It seems to be a particularly London tradition to place large slabs over graves onto which monuments and statues were then erected. Whether it was to prevent grave robbing and the selling of corpses and skeletons to barber surgeons for teaching purposes, history doesn't relate.

This particular cemetery had not been used for many years and is being converted into an amenity playground. The Church is still in use.

These york stone slabs have many reuses as steps, platforms, benches and tables and flagstones. Cox's will have a slab measuring 8ft x 6 ft x 5" on 4 saddle stone bases as a table. Plus some samples of other sizes."

Cox's Architectural Salvage Yard

Travertine Marble at Salvo Fair 2009

Scottish dealer Neale Hargreaves has 600sqm of Travertine Marble flooring to bring to this years Salvo Fair. Each slab is 20mm thick and measures 940mm by 470mm.

The 600sqm is what he has left from 16,000sqm of the original flooring he reclaimed from the Royal Museum (natural history museum) on Chambers Street in Edinburgh. The museum has recently undergone a £46 million refurbishment.

Neale will be offering the flooring at a special show price of £70 a square meter.

Hargreaves

USA plan to drive up property prices by demolishing 40 per cent of the housing in some cities

Obama housing stimulus: If you want the price to rise, reduce the supply!

Mr Kildee treasurer of Genesee County, Michigan said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes. Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America's Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.

A new state law passed a few years ago allows local governments to buy up empty properties very cheaply. The local authority in Flint has already demolished 1,100 homes in outlying areas and Kildee estimates another 3,000 will be razed.

Putting this into perspective, local government is using State law and taxpayers' money, naming their (very cheap) price to 'purchase' empty properties it deems undesirable and also to buy up the more desirable empty properties; then demolishing the 'undesirables' and offering to sell the 'desirable' properties to the very taxpayers whose money was used to pay for them in the first place. There is no mention of what happens if the rightful owners of the 'empty' properties decide they do not want to sell or don't like the 'very cheap' price assigned to the transaction.

Nolan Chart

Salvaged canal dredger and antique Oxford Uni stonework regales Ronsons massive Salvo Fair stand

Above: Historic canal workboat blow dredger, Debris, will form the centrepeice of Ronson's stand, the biggest at Salvo Fair 2009

Knebworth, Herts UK - RONSON Reclaim of Gloucestershire is bringing a recently salvaged and restored a historic canal workboat blow dredger as the centrepiece to its 90ft long stand at this year's Salvo Fair. Known as 'Debris', she was orginally registered to British Waterways as No 386, and now has a Perkins 80hp diesel engine and will be fited with a bow-mounted blow dredger on a hydraulic arm. Also for sale on their stand, the largest at this years fair, will be antique stonework from the demolition of the Department of Physiology at Oxford University recently undertaken by Ronsons.

Salvo Fair
Ronson Reclaim

Tools with a mission collection at Salvo Fair 2009

Tools With A Mission enables people to earn a living and support themselves. In many countries of the world people have few skills, little education and no means of earning a living. A switch from aid dependency to self sufficiency is impossible without help.

TWAM started twenty three years ago, and has since then given this help by collecting and refurbishing tools and equipment no longer required in the UK and sending them overseas.

Salvo have decided to collect tools for Tools With A Mission at the up-coming Salvo Fair 2009 and we are asking for your donations. If you are planing to come to the fair please bring any tools from the attached tools list with you and leave them at the Salvo exhibitor tent and we will transport them to the Tools With A Mission office.


Tools wanted list

TWAM

reuse planters

Above: Planters made from heavy-duty recycled sacks and ribbon. Sizes vary but about 13cm (h)

Pedlars

Planks for the memories

Above: The Coney Island Boardwalk provokes powerful nostalgia for those who stepped upon it.


Above: Bennett Orfaly 45, and the chair he purchased made from boardwalk wood.

Daily News Brooklyn

As Coney Island performs major repair work on the aging wooden walkway, a Manhattan company has been quietly salvaging the discarded planks to turn into furniture it trumpets is made from “a piece of New York City history.”

Olde Good Things, which specializes in architectural salvage has been using the aged Brazilian walnut boards that once welcomed throngs of beachgoers to make benches and tables. The company also sells old planks by the foot for homeowners to use for outdoor decking, either “reworked” or in its original condition with its natural ocean-weathered gray patina.

Daily News Brooklyn

Sad to announce death of Anthony Denman

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Antony “Hank” Denman in a tragic motorcycle accident.

Hank, 44 was involved in a head – on collision at East Stour on the A30 , near his home at Sturminster Newton on the evening of June 4th. Hank was airlifted to Dorset County Hospital and died a short time later.

Hank was one of life’s great guys and always gracious and overflowing with energy. The tributes on http://forums.mxtrax.co.uk/showthread.php?t=243502 reflect not just his popularity but the genuine affection everyone who knew him had for the big man.

Kevin Harris from Masco worked with Hank on several major projects and spoke with him minutes before he set off on the last fateful journey. He and Kevin were always plotting new schemes and they shared a wicked sense of humour. Everyone who had any dealings with Hank will find it difficult to comprehend how such a wonderful spirit could be replaced.

Antony was a stonemason by trade and an entrepreneur by nature. He worked independently and with Chris Daniels, Scott Lewis and haulier Pete Manning in recent years after working for Ken Bolan at Talisman with John Robbins.

Hank and Chris worked avidly as supporters of www.memoproject.org , the mass extinction memorial observatory project involving the creation of a bell to forewarn of the danger to threatened species.

Steve and Carl Horler (Frome Reclamation) recall Hank as a wonderful friend.
One of his biking friends said that it was with tears in his eyes that he recalled Hanks fond memory, it is with heavy hearts that we shall remember him as a very decent and gentle man.

We send our sympathy to his wife Kate , their children and the family from his many friends in the Architectural Salvage industry.

The funeral will be held on Monday 15th June, 14.30pm at Hazelbury Bryan (DT10 2ED). The wake will be held at Pigsty Cottage. All friends are welcome.

Writes Steven Tomlin of MASCO


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Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair

Olympia London 5-14 June 2009





Now in its 36th year, the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair is housed in Olympia’s magnificent Grand Hall and has over 260 British and International exhibitors. These exhibitors include Salvo Code Dealer Alex Puddy of Architectural Heritage.


Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair

DMG sell all four of their big antique fairs

DMG Antique Fairs, organisers of four of the biggest antiques and collectors' fairs in the UK, have been sold by their parent company.

Following a deal finalised on May 31, the Newark, Ardingly, Shepton Mallet and Detling fairs are now owned by former Daily Mail Group executive Keith Harris and veteran exhibition organiser Robert Thomas.

They plan to revive the brand IACF (International Antiques and Collectors' Fairs) - the name of the business before it was given its corporate branding.

This year has also seen the sale of both the SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) fairs and the 'showground' fair held five times a year in Charlotte, North Carolina. Both were acquired in April by former DMG senior executives Michael Franks and Mark Lyman, who have formed The Art Fair Company to run the events.

The focus will now be on Newark which in term of exhibitor and visitor numbers has wandered markedly with the changing trends that have hit the 'grass roots' antique trade.

Mr Thompson emphasised that the new owners anticipate few major changes to an experienced team, "There is a really dedicated professional team based in Newark an we are looking forward to working closely with them to ensure the fair maintains their pre-eminent position as the UK's biggest and best," he said.

Extracted taken from ATG 6 June 2009

Impressive 1911 London Hotel Urns and stunning 1920's stone doorway at Salvo Fair 2009

Above: One of a pair of stone urns from Normandie Hotel, Knightsbridge, London coming to Salvo Fair 2009. £3,500 + vat for the pair























Above: The urns will be on V&V Reclamation's stand at Salvo Fair, who are the most local exhibitor to Knebworth House, and have had a jumbo pitch for six years.























Above: A stone shield, also from the Normandie Hotel, Knightsbridge, London and coming to Salvo 2009. £1,200 + vat

First stop at the Salvo Fair this year for many people will be the jumbo pitch shared by Jason Davies of Architectural Forum, Islington, London and Ed Pearce of V & V Reclamation, Herts. Jason and Ed make a herculean effort every year, being the first exhibitors on site, and normally the last to leave, and filling their artic lorry size pitch with all kinds of wonderous exhibits!

This year, making an appearance, will be two tall stone urns and a shield from the old Knightsbridge Palace Hotel, which was built in 1911. It was renamed the Normandie Hotel in 1937 and closed in 1977. Since then the site has been subject to many proposals, most involve returning to hotel use. In 2006, Waterloo Real Estate was granted permission to build a 155 room hotel for the Bulgaris hotel chain. As a result of the renovation the urns were removed from the hotel exterior from four storeys up.

Also on the V&V-Architectural Forum pitch will be a beautiful stone 10ft high doorway from St Barnabas Church vicarage, Lavender Hill in Battersea. The vicarage was built in 1926, and was demolished to make way for a smaller, more financially viable building, as many our these days.

Below: The carved heads of saints on the St Barnabas Vicarage doorway built 1926, coming to Salvo 2009. Doorway priced at £2,500 + vat


















































St Barnabas Church News
Times Online: Normandie Hotel
V&V Reclamation