Aladdin’s Cave is a family business that has been operating from a shop in Queens Arcade in Leeds city centre for 45 years.
“It was my grandma and my auntie Debbie who opened it,” says Ms Spencer.
“Then my mum and dad took over in the late 90s, then my dad died in 2002 and then I came to work here and never left.”
Aladdin’s Cave is just one of Yorkshire’s family jewellers selling British antiques across the globe.
Despite operating in Leeds for decades, many are now finding their markets have moved to China, America, Australia and the Middle East.
“The majority of the business I do is to America on [online marketplace] Etsy,” says Ms Spencer.
“They love it, they completely lap it up. Some of our competitors just deal solely with people in the States.”
She says the competition for antiques online has increased in the past few months.
“You only have to look online to see so many people doing it because there’s a demand for it.
“People more and more are becoming savvy to sustainable jewellery, ethical jewellery.
“The antique diamonds, they fit into that middle ground when people don’t want to buy a high-conflict diamond or a lab-grown, but they want something unique, with the story to tell.”