This month, October 2023, is a significant moment for the Antique Dealers Research Blog – it’s our ANNIVERSARY!….we are 10 years old this month! Our first post was back on 25th October 2013 – a small, two sentence post briefly announcing the start of the new Blog with a small image of an antique dealer invoice dated October (the symmetry was deliberate) 1907, from ‘Adams’, ‘antique dealer’, who was trading in Edinburgh and New York. (see below) –
Since then, we have posted 231 individual Blog posts, including 2 or 3 guest blog posts from our friends and colleagues, Chris Coles (May 2014) Dr (now Professor!) Clare Taylor (February 2012 – May 2021) Anne Atton (a relative of F.G. & C. Collins Antiques) (April 2023), and from our former Laidlaw Scholar at the University of Leeds, Olivia Powell, (April 2017). Over the past 10 years we’ve composed over 120,000 words on the Blog, on a huge range of subjects related to the history of the antique trade in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, in Britain, Europe and the USA. I won’t rehearse all the themes here of course (there are far too many!), but you can search for all sorts of themes, name of dealers and a range of other antique dealer-related topics using the ‘TAGS’ and ‘SEARCH’ functions in the Blog.
The Blog has build up a hundreds of dedicated ‘Followers’ over the years. Our first Blog post in October 2013 has just 20 views, but the last few years we consistently get between 800 and 1,000 views per month. Since October 2013 we’ve had more than 77,000 views and more than 50,000 visitors, from all over the world – at the last count we’ve had visitors from 142 countries, from every Continent – not bad for such an arcane subject as the history of antique dealing!
Thank you to everyone that follows the Antique Dealers Research Blog – and to all our visitors, from where ever you are, Thank You!
We look forward to the next 10 years; do keep your eyes on the Blog, we have some exciting news to announce in the next few months!
Happy Birthday to us!
Mark
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