Comments on: What Became of Stephen Long’s Antiques

By: Patricia Celeveland-Peck

Patricia Celeveland-Peck — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:33:25 +0000

I love the idea of the ghosts of objects….antique mirrors especially house many ghosts

By: David Milne.

David Milne. — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:04:59 +0000

A wonderful tribute to Stephen and his collection, I remember my many visits to him, him sitting behind his desk at the back of the shop as he would greet me with a kind good morning or good afternoon and we would talk about 18 Folgate Street it’s vast collection of things and share our memories of Dennis. There are I’m happy to say much of Stephens collection safely and loving cared for within our many chambers.
These photographs brilliantly display the intrinsic beauty of objects that have meaning to us as collectors of the rare and unusual. Things that survive because they are loved by the people who once owned them and most importantly used them during their daily lives.
David Milne.

By: Terry Basson

Terry Basson — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:27:17 +0000

I guess we shall always be blessed with Antique shops but sadly not another Stephen Long.

By: Gilbert O'Brien

Gilbert O'Brien — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:30:16 +0000

These photos, apart from their own intrinsic qualities, take the illustrated story of Stephen Long and his emporium one step further than could have ever been anticipated by the owner. They provide a sad, telling but wonderful contrast with the photos taken by John Vere Brown of Stephen Long’s flat above the shop, photos which illustrated an article in one of the first ever Interiors (now World of Interiors) in about 1980 or 81. The flat was in a way an extension of the shop, providing all the objects with a context, a richly decorated setting for the man who hid behind the desk on the days his shop was open to the public. The kind of society that created people like Stephen Long is gone and these photos — plus yr previous article, as well as the photos by John Vere Brown — leave us with a detailed look at a kind of life that managed to survive almost to the end of the 20th century.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:17:33 +0000

Daily treat, thank you (both) ever so much. And would that tureen be Russian, who knows now? Only leaving the gentle author to visit Jane Waterhouse… Have a good day.