The 50 best Antiques shops
Whether you’re after fantastic furniture or perfect paintings, Kate Watson-Smyth offers the experts’ guide to affordable auctions and sky’s-the-limit galleries
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This week’s panel
Mark Dodgson, secretary general of the British Association of Antique Dealers (www.bada.org);
John Ainsley, editor of ‘Antiques Info’ (www.antiques-info.co.uk);
John Andrews, editor of ‘Antique Collecting’ magazine’ (www.antiquecollectorsclub.com);
Fiona Ford of Lapada, the UK’s largest association of professional art and antiques dealers (www.lapada.org)
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