
Pottering Around Antique Centres
We often receive requests from fellow collectors asking us to help them find a certain piece that they’re after and whilst we do our best we can’t find every piece. In the hunt for that elusive piece we often suggest that one type of place you can visit almost every day of the year is an antique centre!
These are quite often large buildings which offer a selection of goods from different dealers often from all over the UK giving you an opportunity of browsing a wide and varied selection of goods.
We visited three antique centres in Scotland recently, here’s what we thought about them:
Scottish Antique & Arts Centre at Abernyte
This antique centre is located between Dundee and Perth just off the main A90 route. It’s housed in a very large purpose built building that has ample parking for cars and indeed for coaches.
Inside it offers visitors a large selection of antiques, art & collectables as well as selection of modern new furnishings, a café and toilets. All items are very well presented and staff seemed friendly and helpful.
It was very easy to browse (no stepping over piles of bits & bobs on the floor!) and appeared to be popular with plenty of visitors. It’s certainly worth a visit if you’re in the area. Visit their website for further information - click here.
Destiny Antiques, Art & Design at Perth Airport, Scone
Once again this antique centre is very handily located, just outside of Perth on the grounds of Perth Airport to the west of Dundee.
This antique centre offers a selection of antiques and furniture along with some art, giftware and home furnishings. There is a coffee shop on site that certainly smelt very nice and at the time was offering some very tasty Orkney ice cream!
There is ample free parking and the centre is currently open 7 days a week. For further information visit their website - click here.
Scottish Antique & Arts Centre at Doune
This centre is run by the same people who run the Scottish Antique & Arts Centre at Abernyte. This branch is located near Doune, just north of Stirling. Once again it is a very large building housing a large selection of antiques and collectables including pottery, ceramics, glassware, jewellery and silver items. There is lots of parking on site and what appears to be a very popular café.
The antique centre is laid out over a series of different rooms which after a few minutes you’re able to navigate easily. Items have been displayed very well and staff once again appeared to be friendly and helpful.
When we went it was very busy with the car park almost full, it certainly seemed a popular place. For further information visit their website - click here.
Do let us know if you’ve visited any antique centres recently. If you have a photograph even better, we’ll then be able to add it to our site to enable other people to read your reviews on it.
Best wishes,
Perfect Pieces
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Here you'll find a list of our past newsletters. They feature information on different potteries, some of our featured stock and information on antique fairs and general news from the antique and collectors world!
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- Unique & Collectable Christmas Gift Ideas!
- Will The Sunshine Hold For September?! Antique Fairs & PenDelfin Rabbits
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- Summer Sunshine & Cornish Treats!
- PenDelfin Rabbits Galore!
- Troika Pottery, PenDelfin Rabbits & Puzzling Pottery Marks!
- Are We Going To Have Snow This Easter?!
- Happy Valentine's Day!
- Welcome To 2013!
- Happy Christmas From Perfect Pieces!
- Countdown To Christmas!
- Troika Pottery - A Popular Cornish Collectable!
- Denby Pottery
- Antique Fairs, New Stock & More Rain!
- Antique Fairs, Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, New Stock & Lots Of Rain!
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- Happy Easter from Perfect Pieces!
- Spring Fairs & Mothering Sunday - It's March!
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- Merry Christmas From Perfect Pieces!
- Make This Year A Collectable Christmas With Perfect Pieces!
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- Summer Holiday Reads - Antique & Collectable Book Reviews!
- Antiques Worldwide This Summer!
- Sunshine & Gales Calls For Blustery Antique Fairs!
- Royal Weddings & Easter Eggs!
- Steaming Around York
- Bruges: Chocolates & Curiosities
- Welcome to 2011. Doesn’t time seem to fly?!
- Merry Christmas From Perfect Pieces
- Burra Bears - A Unique Piece Of Shetland
- Lord Nelson Memorabilia And Collectables
- Steaming Into Autumn
- Antiques In The Summertime
- Pottering Around Antique Centres
- Father's Day Gift Ideas 2010
- A Flying Visit To Limoges
- Spring Is Here - Time To Get Out More!
- West Country Potteries
- February, Fairs & Valentine's Day
- Only Two Weeks Until Christmas...
- Collectables Don’t Have To Be Clutter
- Seeing Double? Not Necessarily...
- Errington Reay: A Real, Live, British Pottery
- Books, Books & More Books...
- Identifying Pottery Marks - Where to Start?
- Learning About Antiques & Collectables
- Happy New Year and welcome to 2009!
- Perfect Pieces Christmas Sale & Shipping Dates
- Thanks, Jean: A Look Back At 51 Years of PenDelfin
- A Visit to Newark International Antiques Fair
- Antique & Collectors Fairs: Are They Worth Visiting?
- Carlton Ware at the NEC
- A Potted History: Charlotte Rhead
- Troika Pottery: Stronger Today than 25 Years Ago?
- Springtime from a Tyneside pottery
- Poole Pottery: Phoenix from the Ashes?
- Daytime TV, Retro Glass & Bamboo...
- Merry Christmas from Perfect Pieces!
- The Enduring Appeal of the Supernatural - Still Popular Today?
- Understanding Pottery Marks
- Three Techniques: Many Styles - A look at three important decorating techniques
- Children's Wares For Grown-Up Collectors
- A Tale From The Lakes
- The Cornish Effect
- From Buyouts To Bunnies...
- From Switzerland to Stoke: Crown Devon's European Import
- Pottery Marks Guide and Pottery Valuation & Appraisal Service
- A Lustre Alternative - Matt Glazed Wares, Art Deco Style
- Truda Carter - Poole Pottery's Greatest Art Deco Designer?
- Odd Ones Out - Three unusual pieces from Wedgwood, Pendelfin and Troika
- Antique Pottery Price Guide Goes Live, and a look at three contrasting 1930s pieces.
- Focus on Carlton Ware - One Shape, Many Patterns
- Wedgwood: The legacy of Keith Murray
- Wonderful Wedgwood Lustre, and a couple of true British Collectables
- A rare Crown Devon Musical, some 1930s Maling lustre, and an early Poole Jug
- A look at the enduring appeal of Poole Pottery's 1950s Freeform Range