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in loving memory of Brian Thompson founder member of the Millinery Works
Below is just a sample of some of our latest stock. Please visit our showroom pages to see all the most recent additions and ask us for prices - we are always happy to discuss terms.
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A pair of Emile Gallé glass paste vases
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A pair of Emile Gallé glass paste vases decorated with foliage & berries in shades of pink & red, released with acid in a cameo... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts 5 drawer chest of drawer
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An oak, Arts & Crafts, Cotswold School, 5 drawer chest of drawers with 'nip' handles, circa 1930, 99cm 939in) high, 59.5cm (23.5in) wide, 35.25cm (14in)... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts, circular dining table
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An oak, Arts & Crafts, circular Cotswold style dining table with a substantial top of plank construction on an octagonal central column and four supports,... View full product details
A set of eight W R Lethaby oak, Arts & Crafts dining chairs
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A set of eight W R Lethaby oak, Arts & Crafts dining chairs of dowel construction with flared back supports, moulded top rail, two tapering... View full product details
An oak, Cotswold School bureau bookcase
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An oak, Cotswold School bureau bookcase of stepped form with fall-front with green leather inset, fitted interior, three drawers over cupboard, carved, stepped, handles, open shelves... View full product details
A Betty Joel Australian walnut Modernist bookcase
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A Betty Joel Australian walnut Modernist bookcase/display cabinet, cross-banding to the overhang to the top, one drawer over cupboard, short drawer with asymmetric arrangement of... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts, hall table,
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An oak, Arts & Crafts, hall table, moulded edge to the top, one short drawer with dovetails & patinated and hammered handle, between heart cut-outs,... View full product details
An English Modernism three piece suite,
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An English Modernism three piece suite, two armchairs and a settee, the exposed wood of walnut with angled edges, tapering front supports to square section,... View full product details
An Arts and Crafts ,oak drop-flap centre table
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An early 20th century Arts and Crafts ,Cotswold School oak drop-flap centre table the octagonal top above a pair of bookshelf ends and chamfered gate-legs,... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts, double bed
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An oak, Arts & Crafts, double bed, the head and the foot boards with shaped cornice and inset arch to frieze, wide central slats, circa... View full product details
A pair of Vienna Secession oak, tub chairs
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A pair of Vienna Secession oak, tub chairs, spindle supports to the arms, flared back legs, tapering cross section front supports, upholstered seat and back... View full product details
A Vienna Secession faded mahogany knee-hole desk
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A Vienna Secession faded mahogany free-standing, knee-hole desk, stepped and moulded edge to the top, one short drawer between a cupboard and four drawers, brass... View full product details
A quarter sawn oak, Cotswold cabinet
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Ambrose Heal A quarter sawn oak, Cotswold cabinet on chest of drawers, exposed dovetails, ebonised chip carving to the front moulded edge on bun feet,... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts, dressing chest
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An oak, Arts & Crafts, dressing chest, swing mirror in stepped cornice and arched frame, with arch top supports, with carved, inset heart and steam... View full product details
An oak, Gordon Russell Cotswold, sideboard
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Early Gordon Russell An oak, Cotswold, sideboard with exposed dowel construction throughout, chamfered gallery, top with bevelled edge, panelled back, two short cedar lined drawers... View full product details
A Heal's limed, quarter-sawn, oak bureau bookcase
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Heal's A limed, quarter-sawn, oak bureau bookcase, chamfering to the frame, fall-front, fitted interior with two short drawers and pigeon holes, asymmetric arrangement of shelves,... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts, Cotswold School, 5 drawer chest of drawers
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An oak, Arts & Crafts, Cotswold School, 5 drawer chest of drawers with 'nip' handles, circa 1930, 99cm 939in) high, 59.5cm (23.5in) wide, 35.25cm (14in)... View full product details
A pair of Arts and Crafts oak framed, upholstered armchairs,
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A pair of Arts and Crafts oak framed armchairs, in the manner of Shapland & Petter, the seats and backs upholstered in Liberty & Co... View full product details
A rare Yew wood military campaign secretaire chest
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A rare Yew wood military campaign secretaire chest on stand with inset brass handles to the drawers and inset brass corners to the top, with... View full product details
An Arts and Crafts oak framed reclining armchair and stool
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An Arts and Crafts oak framed reclining armchair by James Shoolbred & Co, the buttoned back and seat upholstered in Archibald Knox 'Tea Rose' pattern... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts coat and stick stand,
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An oak free-standing, Arts & Crafts coat and stick stand, tapering square section form, cross stretcher, ebonised drip tray, circa 1910, maker's label 'Cooke's (Finsbury)... View full product details
An oak Heals 3 drawer chest of drawers
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A Heals oak 3 drawer chest of drawers with turned wooden handles, machined dovetails to the drawers and upstand to the back, labelled Heals, Tottenham... View full product details
An elm Cotswold dining table,
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An elm Cotswold dining table, the top of flush panel and exposed dovetail construction, on tapering supports with rosewood edges, joined with a shaped, pegged,... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts, fall front bureau bookcase
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An oak, Arts & Crafts, fall front bureau bookcase attributed to Harris Lebus, arched, open gallery, arched plank sides with yin-yan cutouts, fitted interior of... View full product details
A walnut work box on stand attributed to the Barnsley Workshop,
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A walnut work box on stand attributed to the Barnsley Workshop, the octagonal box with hinged two part stepped lid, carved faceted handle, fitted box wood... View full product details
A mahogany Glasgow School magazine rack
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A mahogany Glasgow School magazine rack with round cut-out, circa 1900, 87cm (34.5in) high, 36cm (14in) wide, 24cm (9.5in) deep. View full product details
A bronze Art Deco plate
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A bronze Art Deco plate with Leda & the Swan, crca 1930, 16cm (6.5in) diameter View full product details
An Arts & Crafts, Cotswold oak double bed by Arthur Romney Green
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An Arts & Crafts, Cotswold oak double bed by Arthur Romney Green the head and the foot boards with exposed dowell construction with faceted stopped... View full product details
A pair of Arts & Crafts, Cotswold style, iron andirons,
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A pair of Arts & Crafts, Cotswold style, iron andirons, with applied pierced brass plates, in the manner of the Artificers' Guild. Circa 1920, 60cm... View full product details
An Arts & Crafts sheet pewter, easel-backed mirror
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An Arts & Crafts sheet pewter, easel-backed mirror with repousse relief decoration of grapes and vine leaves and a fox surrounding a central green ceramic... View full product details
An Arts & Crafts brass ceiling light,
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An elegant Arts & Crafts brass ceiling light, re-wired and comes with PAT test, with three wonderful arts and crafts period Vaseline shades in perfect... View full product details
Two lengths of Heals screen-printed cotton crepe fabric
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Two lengths of screen-printed cotton crepe fabric, 'Sweet Corn' pattern, designed by Barbara Brown for Heal's in 1958, printed details on selvedge, each 118 x... View full product details
A Charles II scagliola-mounted ebony and ebonized cabinet
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A Charles II scagliola-mounted ebony and ebonized cabinet on stand the scagliola attributed to Diacinto Cawcy circa 1675 with eight two-panel and two one panel... View full product details
An Very fine oak, Cotswold, sideboard
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An oak, Cotswold, sideboard, plank and exposed dovetail construction, oak lined drawers, one longer between two short, carved nip handles attached by through, wedged tenons, with... View full product details
A Scottish Arts & Crafts print with a Robert Burns' poem
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A Scottish Arts & Crafts print by H J Dobson ARSA depicting Robert Burns' cottage in an Arts & Crafts oak picture frame with inset... View full product details
An oak, Austrian, Arts & Crafts, Secessionist knee-hole desk
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Vienna Secession An oak, Austrian, Arts & Crafts, Secessionist knee-hole desk, reeded decoration and inset panels with a gallery of four short drawers over recesses,... View full product details
A Jugenstil inkwell
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A Jugenstil inkstand on brass mounted rosewood tray with brass inlay, faceted glass inkwell with rosewood and brass inlaid lid, by Erhard and Sohne, Germany,... View full product details
A Cotswold School oak bedside cupboard
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A Cotswold School free-standing, quarter sawn, oak cupboard on legs, with chip carving to the top, the supports and to the lower tier, the door... View full product details
An ebonised Rosetti 'Sussex' armchair
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An ebonised 'Sussex' armchair, designed by D G Rosetti for Morris & Co, re-rushed, slightly reduced in height, castors to the back legs, circa 1875,... View full product details
A fine, Cotswold, walnut extending dining table by Peter Waals
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Peter Waals (1870 - 1937) A fine, Cotswold, walnut extending dining table, one drop-in leaf, stepped edge to the top with ebony and holly inlaid... View full product details
A Hugh Wallis round copper tray
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A round copper repoussé tray with rope edge decoration, by Hugh Wallis, monogrammed, circa 1900, 58cm (23in) diameter View full product details
Sir Frank Brangwyn, monogrammed etching
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An etching 'Barnard Castle' by Sir Frank Brangwyn, monogrammed on plate, 1905, 40cm x 32cm plate size. View full product details
A Pair of Standard Lamps
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A pair of walnut Cotswold School standard lamps, turned, moulded tops with turned scoops, octagonal faceted and stopped chamfered, tapering columns, on cruciform, chamfered sledge... View full product details
An oak, Arts & Crafts stool / magazine rack
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An oak, Arts & Crafts stool / magazine rack, the top with moulded edge and canted corners, exposed dowel construction, shaped supports, circa 1910, 38cm... View full product details
An oak Arts & Crafts ladder-back armchair
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An oak Arts & Crafts ladderback armchair with shaped splats and turning to the front supports and with original rush seat, in the manner of... View full product details
An oak Cotswold waterfall bookcase
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An oak Cotswold waterfall bookcase, front to four shelves over a two door cupboard, with exposed wedged tenon construction to the chamfered shelves, with shaped... View full product details
An original drawing for an Arts & Crafts ceremonial box
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An original drawing for an Arts & Crafts ceremonial box with designs of views of London to be executed in enamel, by A E Jones,... View full product details
A walnut two tier 'Thebes' coffee / lamp table
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A walnut two tier 'Thebes' coffee / lamp table with tapering, turned legs, after a design by E W Godwin, circa 1880, 66cm (26in) high,... View full product details
An oak Cotswold style cabinet
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An oak Cotswold style cabinet with a cupboard to one side and two shelves to the other, with exposed dovetail construction to the top and... View full product details
An Aesthetic walnut two-tier centre table
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A finely figured Aesthetic walnut two-tier centre table with splayed legs and shaped frieze, after a design by Charles Eastlake, circa 1875, 61cm (24in) high,... View full product details
The Antique Trader was established in 1970 in North London’s Camden Passage antique centre. The partners, Brian Thompson & Derek Rothera, at that time specialised in early English oak furniture
By the eighties they were dealing in Georgian and Biedermeier periods which were more popular at that time. However, the partners’ real interest lay in the Arts & Crafts Movement which drew much of its inspiration from the craftsmanship of the early English country furniture makers.
In the mid eighties they began infiltrating Morris, Liberty and Cotswold School pieces into their stock and by 1990 the shop was entirely dedicated to the Arts & Crafts movement, designers and makers.
In 1996 the business was relocated to its current premises which were built at the turn of the 19th century as a hat making factory. Derek & Brian have established the name of The Antique Trader at The Millinery Works, 87 Southgate Road, Islington, London N1 3JS.
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