Antique Dealers: the British Antique Trade in the 20th Century

Albert Amor

The company of Albert Amor was established in 1903.  Albert Amor (b.1867) formerly worked for the well-known dealer Frederick Litchfield, and by 1903 opened a gallery at 32 St. James's Street in London in partnership with W.Leslie Perkins, who had also worked with Amor at Frederick Litchfield's shop. In 1921 Amor was appointed Antiquary to, the Queen Mary; in 1921 Albert Amor retired to Devon, and the business was taken over by W.Leslie Perkins.  Perkins is known for revising and updating all the ceramic marks in the 1924 edition of Chaffers 'Marks & Monograms' and was responsible for the catalogue of the Lady Ludlow collection of 18th century porcelain.

John Perkins, the son of W.L. Perkins continued the firm. In 1956 Mrs Anne Margaret George, the daughter of another ceramics dealer, Archibald Allbrook, joined the firm.

According to their advertisements in the 1910s, Albert Amor was established in 1837. Albert Amor was one of the founding members of the BADA in 1918.

Trading Names

Albert Amor 1905 - 2000

Classifications

No Classifications

Specialisms

Dealer in Rare Porcelains, Furniture and Art Objects 1905
Old Furniture 1910
Dealer in & Purchaser of Old Furniture 1920
Art & Antique Expert 1920
Licensed Valuer of Works of Art 1920

Trading Classifications

Antique Furniture Dealers 1910
Antique Ceramics; Dealers in Antiquities; Curiosity Dealers c.1920 - c.1930
Antiquities - Valuers Of. 1920
Valuer & Purchaser of Old Furniture &c 1920
Art Expert 1920
Antique Ceramics c.1922 - c.1932

People

Albert Amor c.1905 - c.1930
Leslie Perkins 1928

Memberships

BADA 1918

Objects Sold

No Objects Sold

Objects Bought

No Objects Bought