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Rupert Toovey’s Oxford Conferences

Rupert Toovey recently launched www.oxfordconferences.org offering Continuing Professional Development Conferences to the Art and Antiques Professional. The 2013 Conference follows on from the success of the inaugural conference last year and is exclusive to members of the trade. The Art and Antique CPD Conference will be held on the 13th and 14th September, further information on this year’s event can be found here. Bookings can be made online.

Private individuals or members of other related trades may have the opportunity of attending future conferences so it is recommended to sign up to their newsletter on www.oxfordconferences.org for future updates. Alternatively you can follow them on Twitter or Facebook.

Toovey’s New Sign Unveiled!

Visitors to Toovey’s for the forthcoming August Sale Week, those delivering items for forthcoming specialist sales or coming to our auction house for free pre-sale valuations will get to see our new sign. The sign was created and installed by leading local firm Tara Signs.

As you can see it shows our membership with SOFAA, the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers and our membership to the exclusive Association Of Accredited Auctioneers (AAA). The new sign is clearly visible in between Washington and Ashington on the A24 in both directions.

Rupert Toovey’s articles for the West Sussex Gazette

Every week Rupert Toovey, senior director of Toovey’s, writes an article for the West Sussex Gazette newspaper. If you would like to read an archive of Rupert’s articles you can do so on the Toovey’s blog by clicking here. You can also always read Rupert’s articles first in the West Sussex Gazette. His article this week was ‘John Young: Gentleman Racer, Collector & Enthusiast.’ Click here to read the article.

Rupert Toovey launches www.oxfordconferences.org

In 2012, Rupert Toovey and Jeremy Lamond founded Oxford Conferences Limited. It was established to deliver excellence through education and dialogue and is the only independent provider of continuing professional development for professionals working in the art and antiques industry. The inaugural conference was held in September 2012 and offered delegates a series of lectures at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This year a conference exclusive to the art and antique professional will be held on 13th and 14th September. Further events for private individuals are in development.

Oxford Conferences has recently launched its new website, visit www.oxfordconferences.org for more information.

Members of the Postcard Traders Association

2013 has seen TOOVEY’S become members of the Postcard Traders Association.

The Postcard Traders Association (PTA) was formed in 1975 by a group of pioneering dealers who felt that the rapidly expanding hobby required a more professional approach, with regard to its organisation, regulation and direction. Today the PTA represents the foremost dealers from around the globe, auctioneers, fair organizers, publishers and accessory distributors among its members. All have been vetted to ensure that the high standards and objectives set upon its foundation are maintained to help in protecting collectors against unfair or dubious trading practices. It is, in effect, a guarantee or badge of fair trading, known by collectors and other dealers and has agreed a code of ethics which all members are required to adhere to.

Brighton Corporation Tramways Postcard — Lot 3045

Toovey’s are one of only a few auctioneers that have been accepted by the PTA and received membership to the association. It is largely attributable to Nicholas Toovey’s personal interest in postcards and is recognition for his continuing promotion of the Sales of Paper Collectables and the field of collecting postcards.

Toovey’s next auction of Paper Collectables is on 16th April 2013, the catalogue is now online and can be viewed by clicking here. The auction includes 90 Lots of postcards, including numerous vintage postcards of Sussex, the rest of the UK, China, Hong Kong and elsewhere, artist postcards by Louis Wain and Mabel Lucie Attwell, Military and Sport postcards. Also included in the specialist auction is a rare postcard of a Brighton Corporation Tramways tram showing various advertisements and the destination as ‘Seven Dials’, offered as a single item (Lot 3045) this rare postcard carries an estimate of £30-50.

Entries are currently invited for the next specialist postcard auction to be held as part of the August Sale of Paper Collectables, please call our offices for deadlines and further information.