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Inside Alladin's cave

There's something so wonderfully comforting about walking into an antique store… Inside that Aladdin's Cave of pretty, shiny things, I fall in love with fussy little objects d'art nestling on handsome teapoys and delicate silver artefacts that gleam under golden, dancing sun-beams.

I wander about, in a sort of semi-trance, unable to decide what I enjoy more - the gorgeous smell of old, lovingly polished wooden surfaces, or the heady aroma of freshly brewed tea…

I'm at Anteaques, a quaint little antique shop in Edinburgh, by no means the city's biggest but certainly among its finest, with an elegantly appointed parlour, that neatly doubles-up as the tearoom! Cedric Maynard, the affable co-owner, is carefully decanting teas in various exotic flavours (think almond, rose petal and verbena) into twee red paper-bags, all the while telling me about ornate Victorian houses of yore that could have easily passed for a museum, transporting me altogether to a different era!

I couldn't help thinking about the days, long before Amazon/e-bay and the convenience of one-click buying, when antique-shops were practically places of worship for collectors and the dealers, fonts of knowledge.

Fierce competition

“Today, there are many more ways of sourcing antiques and there seems to be a wider audience,” acknowledges Cedric. “Shops are still around; auction houses are doing well, as they have moved with the times and embraced online auctioning.”

All, it seems, is well, except for the robust and, at times, fierce competition from online antique dealers happily running a small, flourishing business from the spare-room!

The Internet, however, has not killed off the business, stresses Cedric. “It has only changed the rules.” Prices, thanks to online resources, are transparent; but competition remains intense; at times pitting dealers against their very customers, as they bid for the same ‘lots'!

A very different modus operandi indeed, from the pre-Internet era, when antique collectors would frequently seek out lovely way-out little shops and, with a keen eye, build collections that, by today's standards, would be formidable. Graeme Munro, the former Chief Executive of Historic Scotland, talks about his late father-in-law, one such collector. “He travelled a lot throughout England in the course of his work and holidayed in Scotland and collected early 19th century blue and white Spode. His aim was to collect at least one example of every design and shape. Whether he achieved that, I do not know but he did build up - over many years and at relatively modest cost - what I believe was one of the largest collections in private ownership.

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