Bendigo Easter Antique Fair

The Bendigo Easter Antique Fair was held over the Easter long weekend in Kangaroo Flat, just outside Bendigo. It featured dealers from all over Victoria and some from South Australia and New South Wales. The majority of the dealers had small items like small silver, jewellery and porcelain. There was not much furniture. While there were a few stalls with very high-quality products, most of the stalls had a mixture of junk and better-quality, meaning a fair amount of digging was required to find anything of value. There was one stall of second-hand clothing which had some neat things from the 1940s and 50s and a couple of stalls with asian antiques, including some satsuma-ware and jade.

All in all, it was a decent fair for its size (two rooms; a circuit could be done in 30 mins easily) and was mostly reasonably priced, although I thought some of the interstate dealers were quite high. However, I do wonder about the viability of this fair so close to the (much larger) Ballarat Antique Fair which had many of the same dealers. I would not put the Bendigo Fair on a list of "required fairs to attend" but it was enjoyable, all the same.