Aladdin’s Cave is a family business that has been operating from a shop in Queens Arcade in Leeds city centre for 45 years.<\/p>\n
“It was my grandma and my auntie Debbie who opened it,” says Ms Spencer.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Aladdin’s Cave is just one of Yorkshire’s family jewellers selling British antiques across the globe.<\/p>\n
Despite operating in Leeds for decades, many are now finding their markets have moved to China, America, Australia and the Middle East.<\/p>\n
“The majority of the business I do is to America on [online marketplace] Etsy,” says Ms Spencer.<\/p>\n
“They love it, they completely lap it up. Some of our competitors just deal solely with people in the States.”<\/p>\n
She says the competition for antiques online has increased in the past few months.<\/p>\n
“You only have to look online to see so many people doing it because there’s a demand for it.<\/p>\n
“People more and more are becoming savvy to sustainable jewellery, ethical jewellery.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aladdin’s Cave is a family business that has been operating from a shop in Queens Arcade in Leeds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791436374118979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}