www.antiques.co.uk offers lifeline to antique shops and dealers

The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Friday, March 29, 2024


www.antiques.co.uk offers lifeline to antique shops and dealers
World’s-leading antique online platform www.antiques.co.uk enhances routes for sales during COVID lock-down – now open to all art galleries, antique shops, collectors and private clients worldwide.



LONDON.- As antiques fairs and shops and galleries temporarily close their doors as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, www.antiques.co.uk the world’s leading online antiques platform has launched a pay-as-you-go option where trade and private clients can list the widest array of items to buy and sell, whilst the site is now open to art galleries from around the world.

Traditionally a pay-for-membership site, www.antiques.co.uk founder Iain Brunt has now opened-up the platform enabling antique dealers, galleries, collectors and private buyers to list individual items for £3.75 (USD $5) with no other hidden fees or charges and the item remains live until sold.

There is no time restriction or limit to the number of items you can list.

According to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report of 2020, global sales of art and antiques reached $64.1 billion in 2019. With economic predictions of the biggest financial crash in 100 years (Nomura), the art and antiques market must adopt digital platforms such as www.antiques.co.uk, or perish.

To support customers engaging on the platform, www.antiques.co.uk also has an online valuation service built-in, allowing individual sellers to get valuations within a few days so knowing the value of their items before listing them on the site.

The valuations pages are easy to use and intuitive.

Valuations can be as swift as 48 hours from as little as £10 (USD $13).

Traditional website sales platforms suffer from fakes and fraud, www.antiques.co.uk is designed to protect the buyer and help the legitimate seller.

Founder of antiques.co.uk, Iain Brunt:
“Having worked in the industry for over 40 years I thought it was time that someone represented all the world’s experienced and specialist dealers on one website.

As we have found over the years dealers throughout the world have been ignored in favour of contemporary art and design, and I hope with the development of www.antiques.co.uk that we can make aware to the rest of the world that we are in existence and are very knowledgeable.

With the present COVID-19 pandemic, the antiques sector faces a game-changing moment – we can either fully adopt to digitalisation and the benefits of technology, or we can continue to plough a lonely furrow which in the present and future economic climate would frankly be suicide.

At this moment I also wanted to open the site to art galleries to provide another route to market for them.

Finally, we ask all our colleagues and friends to keep safe and stay at home at this moment.”










Today's News

April 21, 2020

Lark Mason Associates forges ahead with online Asian art sales

Paul Kasmin, gallerist who ruled a mini-empire of art, dies at 60

Clarke Auction Gallery features art, jewelry, silver April 26

Christie's announces nline-only auction 'Handpicked: 100 Artists Selected by the Saatchi Gallery'

Italy's tourist towns shrivel in face of virus

Sue Davies OBE, founding Director of The Photographers' Gallery, has died aged 87

Hollis Taggart now represents artist Hollis Heichemer

Rubem Fonseca, giant of Brazilian literature, dies at 94

Damien Hirst creates Rainbow for the NHS

A string quartet is crushed by the coronavirus

Showtime, suspended

Keep calm and draw together

Wildlife photographer Peter Beard dead at 82

Beryl Bernay, children's tv host with a varied career, dies at 94

Robert Loomis, who edited Angelou, Styron and Morris, dies at 93

The Art Gallery of New South Wales launches #TogetherInArt

www.antiques.co.uk offers lifeline to antique shops and dealers

The museum confederation L'Internationale invites artists to join a conversation

Artist donates profits as lockdown prompts steep rise in calls to LGBTQ+ helpline

CAP Prize 2020: 25 shortlisted projects announced

Visit museums from home with Art Fund's podcast Meet Me at the Museum

Glasgow International announces a digital programme with new online commissions

Master photographer Derry Moore turns his lens on American architecture and landscape

Dannielle Bowman wins the 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize

Are you in search of a reliable writing service?

ART COLLECTOR SHOWCASE: Josh Elizetxe Shares His Collection




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful