Mark Jones Antiques would like to wish our clients a happy, healthy and peaceful Festive Season, and to thank you for your business in 2022. We look forward to working with you in 2023. With very best wishes, Mark Jones

With Christmas just around the corner, we are celebrating Snaffles at Mark Jones Antiques. Mark Jones Antiques are delighted to offer four rare original works in watercolour by Snaffles, Charlie Johnson Payne, all of which have come from one of the best Private Collections of Snaffles works in the country. Alongside these rare pictures, we [...]

Cheltenham Festival Week...our favourite week of the year! Although this year it will be a very different Festival, as we are all confined to watching it from the sofa. If you're looking for a way to celebrate your winnings or commiserate your losses, we have a wonderful range of works by Snaffles, Charlie Johnson Payne [...]

Mark Jones Antiques are privileged to have sold The Cigar Case of Two Kings of England. This was an extremely rare opportunity to acquire a treasured personal possession owned by Queen Victoria's son, Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales and then gifted to his grandson Edward VIII, the only abdicated Monarch of the [...]

The Grand Tour of the late 17th, 18th and 19th centuries saw many upper class, wealthy and aristocratic gentlemen travel to Italy and Europe, particularly Rome, Venice and Florence, for pleasure, education and inspiration. This afforded them the opportunity to view important classical and Renaissance works of art and architecture. The term 'Grand Tour' was [...]

The Mark Jones Antiques website has been a little quiet this year, whilst we navigated our way through working from home, juggling childcare and months with no fairs and auctions. Luckily, life for us all feels like its getting back to normal and we are still safe, vaguely sane and solvent. The antiques trade is [...]

Mark Jones Antiques has now moved to our new business premises in the Cotswolds. Our showroom is open by appointment only, so please get in touch if you would like to visit, especially as not all of our stock is on our website. Phone: 07889071414 Email: info@markjonesantiques.co.uk

Thank you to everyone who came along to support us at the October Battersea Decorative Fair. And, of course, a special thank you to all of our buyers. A successful end to our trio of fairs for the year.

We will be standing at Battersea Decorative Fair, October 1st-6th 2019. Please visit us at our usual stand (E11), to view our exciting new stock. The Fair is a high point of the year for interior decorators and is London’s largest vetted antiques and period design event. It takes place three times a year in [...]

Gordon Russell was born in Cricklewood, London, in 1892. In 1904 the family moved to Broadway in the Cotswolds and took over the Lygon Arms Hotel, and it was here that Gordon Russell first experienced working with furniture, overseeing the small workshop repairing antiques to furnish the Lygon, and then later to establish an ancillary [...]