For Specialist Collectors of Antique Packaging:

Antique Bottles, Pot Lids, Ginger Beers, Enamel Signs, Breweriana, Salt glaze pottery (hunting jugs to utilitarian wares), Cream Pots, Quack Cures, Clay pipes, Antique Advertising, Early glass (sealed & unsealed), Baby feeders, Doulton Lambeth, Guinness, Inks, Pharmacy, Poisons, Eye baths, Mineral waters – & so much more.

BBR Auction's sale room and offices are located in the excellent setting of The Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Four quarterly week-end events at Elsecar are supported by Saturday Unreserved sales (500+ lots) with a major catalogued highlight beside the BIG Sunday Fair. The SummerNational week-end boasts approx 40,000 sq ft of stalls inside & out whilst the Sunday auction remains BBR’s annual highlight offering.

Every year BBR organises highly established Fairs & Auctions. BBR brings the UK specialist Bottle, Pot Lid & Advertising market, and the rest of the world, together in the glorious setting of Elsecar – every January, April, July & Oct. The events are dubbed BBR’s WinterNational (January), Spring Extravaganza (April), the UK SummerNational (1st full w/e in July), Autumn Extravaganza (October).

BBR’s annual show calendar culminates in the world famed UK SummerNational – the largest event of it’s kind in Europe (around 40,000 sq ft of inside & outside stalls), culminating in a high flying Sunday Auction. The show attracts collectors (more and more) from every corner of the globe.