Sign up on our website to receive email notifications of our next auctions. Huddy's the name goes back to the early 60's when school boys at Treverton school battled to get their mouths around Mr Hudson-Reed, my late father, who was the founder headmaster of the school. The name stuck and has past down the line to his children, either in the classroom or in business. In the early 80's my brother D
onald started trading in bric-a-brac, collectables, furniture, cars .... actually anything. As a student boarding with him, I was dragged off to Cannon and Finlay on a Saturday morning, initially with much protest, before the bug caught me. Not just the buying and selling bug but I looked forward to the entertainment the auctioneer Peter Maskell offered. With the little I earned selling burgers at a dodgy all night take away, I started buying books. R10 could buy numerous tea boxes of books on a Saturday. We started doing the flea markets and were part of a group of the earliest marketeers in Pietermaritzburg. My brother started Huddy's, the 'junk shop', which soon become a land mark in PMB. Anything from a pot lid to an angle grinder or a Royal Doulton figurine were on sale. You could hardly walk through the stock in the two old houses he had bought on Winston Road. During this time I had a shop in Mossel Bay and Paarl, and discovered collectable books and more specifically Africana. My late dad once retired started dealing in books and on my return to Pietermaritzburg I took over his book business. When Donald passed away I took over the use of the name Huddy's, but specialised in books. I traded informally for a few years, before setting up shop at Piggly Wiggly. We sell quality second hand and collectable books, of all genre, but have a special interest in Africana and Esotoric literature. Our shop will fascinate anyone with a love for books, but especailly anyone with an interest in South African literature. Visit us.
