Story of a pug called Duke and catching the collecting bug
As with many collectors and dealers, the antiques passion started in an auction room. As a child, some of Amanda Allinson’s earliest memories are of sitting with her grandma in the County Durham rooms of Addisons Auctioneers in Barnard Castle, the town where she grew up.
She remembers “feeling so excited that I was allowed to place a bid on a little curiosity that had…