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Merry Christmas to all our Readers!

Wishing all our many readers (this year more than 15,000 of you!) a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!

Our Christmas image this year is a photograph of the Christmas window display of the well-known antique dealers Norman Adams, who were established in Boston, USA in 1923 before opening their famous shop in Hans Road, London (next to Harrods) in 1928. They opened their shop in New York in 1929 (run by a young Alistair Stair); the photograph is of their New York shop at Christmas time 1930. Enjoy!

Norman Adams Ltd, Christmas Window Display 1930, 155 East 54th Street, New York. Photograph Antique Dealers Research Project, University of Leeds (courtesy of Christopher Claxton Stevens).

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