Department
Fairs & Auctions
A Saturday at a county antique fair, Christie's spring sale, Newark NJ flea, Sunday morning in Bermondsey.
A Specialist Clock Sale Outside Boston
One afternoon at a single-discipline clock auction in Marlborough, where the bidders all know each other and the catalogue is a working census.
An Online-Only Decorative Arts Sale, Observed
Three days of bidding on a regional auction house's online sale, where the lot numbers run to twelve hundred and the room is a webcam.
A County Antique Fair in Northern Vermont
A Saturday at the Lamoille County Antique Show, where seventy dealers fill a 4-H barn and the trade is unmistakably local.
Bermondsey Square on a Friday Morning
Five a.m. in south London, where the oldest open-air antiques market in the city still trades by torchlight and a particular legal history hangs over the stalls.
A Saturday at the Brimfield Antique Show
Eight hours on the J & J field at Brimfield, where the gates open at six and the serious buyers have already walked the rows by eight.
An English Country House Sale in Wiltshire
Two days at the contents auction of a Georgian house in the Wylye Valley, where a thousand lots are sold from the rooms themselves.
Newark Flea Market at Sunrise
Six in the morning on a cold Sunday in April, when the dealers are still unloading and the picker culture of the New York metro area is fully visible.
Spring Decorative Arts at Christie's New York
A morning at Rockefeller Center for the Christie's spring sale of American decorative arts, where the room is quiet and the bidding is not.