Fenton, Samuel George
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Samuel G. Fenton was an antiques and art dealer who specialised in ethnographic objects and armour. His family established a well-known ‘old curiosity shop’ in the mid-nineteenth century at 5 & 6 Meat Market, Bury St. Edmunds. S. G. Fenton founded Fenton & Sons in 1880, according to their publicity materials. In or around 1900 they had opened the Old Curiosity Shop in London. From around 1900 to... Read more
Samuel G. Fenton was an antiques and art dealer who specialised in ethnographic objects and armour. His family established a well-known ‘old curiosity shop’ in the mid-nineteenth century at 5 & 6 Meat Market, Bury St. Edmunds.
S. G. Fenton founded Fenton & Sons in 1880, according to their publicity materials. In or around 1900 they had opened the Old Curiosity Shop in London. From around 1900 to 1933, the shop was located at 11, New Oxford Street, W1, London, and until around 1950 at 33, Cranbourne Street, WC1, London (Antique Dealers project, 2022).
Fenton sold pieces from the Kingdom of Benin after the British Military Campaign on Benin returned. His sources are not well documented, but one of them must have been William Downing Webster since he is the provenance for one of the pieces sold to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, in 1904. Fenton had some objects as early as 1898, which he sold directly to museums in the UK and Germany.
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