News

10.05.2012

Attention all postcard collectors!

Two albums of postcards along with photo albums, discovered in a gentleman's attic, are now in the shop. There is a comprehensive selection of postcards in excellent condition including topographical, early fire brigade, actresses, boats and trains and many other images. The photo albums contain a fascinating selection of family portraits, early scenes of Northamptonshire, 1930's pictures of Bali and White Star and Cunard ephemera.

09.05.2012

Brass Four Poster

We have just put up a late nineteenth century, 2 foot 6 inch, brass four poster bed, made by R W Winfield and Co. We are asking £375 including original sprung base and modern matress. We will be posting a picture on facebook and twitter later today.

02.05.2012

Cowper and Newton Museum

We have just purchased 10 various pictures from the Cowper and Newton Museum. We were very privileged to have been offered the chance to procure objects from such a good, local source. All of these items no longer comply with the Museum's collection policy and are of local interest.

02.05.2012

We are now on facebook and twitter

If you are interested we are now on facebook and twitter, please follow us.

28.04.2012

We just recieved one of our oil paintings back

We just recieved one of our oil paintings, which has a strong resemblance to Sir Francis Drake and dates from the late eighteenth century , back from a restorer we have just started using. Her name is Marta Sledz and she works on Oil Paintings, Frames, Gilding, Wall Paintings and Decorative Surfaces. We have had a painting cleaned and a frame re-gilded and we would happily recomend her work. She is based in Rushden and her website is www.martasledz.com.

20.04.2012

We have a new specalist Antiquities dealer moved in today

We are pleased to welcome another specalist dealer to the shop. He deals in antiquities from all over the world, we will be listing a number of his items on our website over the weekend.

19.04.2012

Stunning new pieces at Dodos

Recently arrived at Dodo Antiques are a stunning pair of Empire ormolu wall sconces and a mid-nineteenth century ormolu gasolier which has modern wiring. Soon to be joined by a late nineteenth century pendant light fitting with vaseline shade.

12.04.2012

Two Royal Worcester lidded pot pouri.

Two stunning Royal Worcester lidded pot pouri now grace the shop, along with some new Art Deco pieces and some great furniture.

05.04.2012

Longcase clocks of varous sizes.

A number of longcase clocks have arrived in the shop. Big, meduim, small and miniature clocks are at Dodos for your perusal - come and see us! There are plenty of new items including framed oils, Art Deco pieces and more taxidermy!

29.03.2012

Dodo Antiques advertised in new Millar's handbook

Dodo Antiques boasts a bright new advert in the latest Millar's Collectables Handbook 2012-2013 (page 257). We are looking forward to welcoming compiler Judith Millar to the shop for a book signing in the next few months. The current warm spring weather is attracting plenty of visitors to Olney and to the shop - there are lots of great new pieces to show them. We have recently acquired a selection of large good quality framed prints, one of them titled "The Pytchley Hunt".

19.02.2012

Taxidermy

We have decided to add a taxidermy catergoy to our web-site so our customer's a little further away from us can keep up to date with the new items in.

16.10.2011

WE ARE MAKING 2 CABINETS AVAILABLE FOR SPECIALIST DEALERS

We have had such a great first year that we have decided to release 2 cabinets to 2 new specialist dealers. One is on the ground floor and one on the first floor. As a specialist deale,r you have years of experience, quality items and that something special to add to our shop, to bring variety and again top quality to our clients. If you are that specialist dealer who is looking to join a busy up-market centre, then pop in and chat with us. Alternatively, you can contact us at info@dodoantiques.co.uk. Need I say...first come first served.... We look forward to speaking with you.

10.10.2011

First Year Anniversary

Well who can believe it... but a year has almost come and gone. Owain and I (Barry) would like to thank everyone who has helped to make this past year, one of the best we ever could have imagined. With sales beating all expectations, it makes us very excited about the year ahead and we look forward to providing continued quality, selection and above all... good service. We would also like to thank our staff for their professionalism, work ethics and above all sense of humour... we could not have done this without you. To all our "regular clients"... we thank you for your patronage and for spreading the word ,to help us in the beginning, we truly appreciate your support...So here is hoping for another fantastic year and we hope to welcome both our regular clients as well as soon to be regualar clients again soon. Thanks to all !!!!!!!!

18.09.2011

Antiques Road Trip

We were filmed for BBC2's antique road trip back in June and the program will now be shown on Tursday the 29th of Steptember on BBC2 at 5:15.

16.05.2011

Epstien Dining Suite Sold

Our Epstien dining suite has gone under offer and will be leaving for Essex in the next couple of months, it will be missed by many of our customers.

14.05.2011

Toy Collection

We have just aquired a large toy collection from one of our customers including Hornby Trains, Schuco Tinplate Cars and Scaletrix Cars and boxed sets. Our customers parents were in the military so almost all of the items we have are in very good working condition and come with there original boxes. We will be listing as many items on the website as we get time too but we do have a list of all of the items. If you would like more information please contact us.

18.04.2011

New Sold Category

We have decided to add a new Sold Catergory for our members who can access it through the members section, they will be able to use this section as a rough price guide.

15.04.2011

New specialist Shelley Dealer

We are sorry to our regular visitors for not updating our website recently, but are pleased to say that we have been extremely busy. We are pleased to announce that we have just signed up a new dealer who is a Shelley specialist and we will be listing a number of her items over the next few weeks. If anyone is looking for any Shelley items please let us know as we now have access to a vast collection of quality pieces.

18.12.2010

Our Holiday Hours

With the holidays now creeping up on us and families gathering for a few days of festive fun, we would like to let you know that when it all gets too much and you are feeling house bound or have just got to get out... that we will be open for your piece of mind and potential sanity everyday but Christmas day. Our hours will be 26,27,31 of December from 11am till 4pm, 28, 29, 30 of December 10:30am till 5pm and New Year's Day 12Pm till 4pm. After that we will be back to regular hours for your shopping convenience. From all of us here at Dodo Antiques we wish you a happy and safe holiday season and look forward to seeing you in the shop again soon.

07.12.2010

New Oriental Section Added

We are pleased to announce that we have added a new section to our web site. We have added the Oriental section, which will include Jade, Ivory, Ceramics and many other interesting items. We will be listing a very good eighteenth century Samurai sword in the next couple of days.