Nelson’s sword returns
THE Chelsea Antiques Fair will open for the 70th time when it returns to the Old Town Hall in the King’s Road, SW3 (September 21–26). At one stage, it seemed likely to succumb to the plague, as Caroline Penman, the doyenne of fair organisers who had run it since 1983, was known to be looking for a buyer and the times were not propitious.
However, in February, she struck a deal with , an online marketplace for dealers set up in 2019. Two of the new owners, Steve Sly
