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

H.R. Hancock began his career in the antiques trade working in 1887 joining the antique dealers W.T. Dickinson, of Wigmore Street, London, who counted George Salting as a customer. Hancock was a specialist dealer in Chinese ceramics and was the Treasurer of the British Antique Dealers' Association during the 1930s.