The NEC's Antiques for Everyone Fair is Britain's most popular antiques event.
It features the widest range of fine antiques and works of art assembled for sale in the UK. More than 600 dealers from across Britain and Europe specialise in all kinds of rare antiques and collectables of every age and period.
More than 50,000 antiques and works of art with a total value in excess of £40 million will be for sale at the event from Thursday, April 3 to Sunday, April 6.
The fair is Britain's largest indoor spring show and more than 25,000 visitors are expected from across the world.
And the Advertiser/Messenger has an amazing 25 pairs of tickets to give away for the show.
Prices will range from less than £10 for an example of Victorian needlework to £100,000 for the finest Continental oil paintings.
Exhibitors at Antiques for Everyone are divided into two areas. In section one most exhibits are shown by specialised expert dealers. More than 50 dealers specialise in furniture, barometers and clocks, over 100 will show ceramics and glass and there are more than 50 art galleries.
Section two exhibits pre-date 1950 and dealers offer a huge range of 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture, arts and crafts.
A wide range of Chinese pottery, porcelain and ancient artefacts from BC to the 20th century will also be for sale.
Zhai Xiaoxiang, one of only eight living Chinese Senior Porcelain Masters, will be demonstrating his unique skills at the Fair.
His daily demonstrations will be the highlight of a unique display of Chinese ceramics and Shanghai School scroll paintings to be presented by Peter Wain, the well known antique dealer and Chinese specialist from Anglesey who, together with the NEC, has sponsored Zhai Xiaoxiang's visit to Britain from China.
To be in with a chance to win, answer the question below. Please send your entries on a postcard or a sealed envelope, to Sports Camp Competition, Advertiser/Messenger, 5, High Street, Bromsgrove, B61 8AJ, or you can drop them off by hand at either the Bromsgrove office or our office in Droitwich at 12, High Street. The first 25 correct entries drawn at random will win. The usual Advertiser/Messenger competition rules apply. The editor's decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into relating to this competition. The closing date for entries is first post on Wednesday, March 26, 2003. The question you need to answer correctly is:
Name the Chinese Senior Porcelain Master visiting the Fair.
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