Button collectors meeting Leuven Belgium

April 2022 · 2 minute read

On **Saturday, the first of October 2022, the third Belgian button collectors meeting will be held in zaal De Kring, J.Pierrestraat 60, BE 3010 Leuven (Kessel-Lo), from 10am until 5pm.

It is a cooporation of Fibule, the French association of button collectors and the Dutch Antique Button Society, the Dutch collectors group. The members of these two organizations provide the doubles of their collections for sale or exchange.

Sellers or collectors, not member of Fibule or the Dutch Antique Button Society can rent a table for € 20. Until September 25, payments can be made by a €20 bank transfer to Griet Van Ranst, account number BE08 9793 8448 9413 (BIC: ARSPBE22), stating “button Fair 2022/10/01” and your name, after contacting me.

Brussels-National/ Zaventem is at 14 min by train. Railway station is at a 10 min walk from the event room. Good connection with Brussels-Midi (Thalys and Eurostar), Antwerp, Ostend and Liège. By car; take Exit 20 on the E314, to Kessel-Lo, about 3km.

For a hotel, I recommend http://www.Booking.com/Leuven. The following hotels are near by the meeting room: Park Inn by Radisson, Ibis Budget Leuven Centrum, Hostel Blauwput, Mille Colonnes and La Royale. A bit further, you find Novotel, Theater Hotel Leuven Centrum and hotel Binnenhof. All these hotels are close to the railway station. You can find more hotels in the center of Leuven, and there are buses that can bring you to the meeting room (busstop De Becker-Remyplein or Diestsesteenweg, kerk Blauwput). More information about B&B’s and a camperplace, you can find at https://www.visitleuven.be/en/stayingover.

Reservations for a table and information : Tel. 0032 (0)16 260304, E-mail: griet@verraedt.be or the contact form on https://griet.verraedt.be/knopenbeurs.

Free admission, note that the room is located on the first floor and there is no elevator.

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