Prints, Maps and Books
How to Spot a Giclee Reproduction Sold as an Antique
The framed botanical on the dealer's wall has the right foxing, the right soft colours and a price tag of $340, and you cannot...
You have found a lovely Georgian teaspoon or a Victorian salver at a fair, and right in the middle sits someone else's initials.
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Prints, Maps and Books
The framed botanical on the dealer's wall has the right foxing, the right soft colours and a price tag of $340, and you cannot...
Care and Preservation
A sticky, dull film on an old chest of drawers is almost never age.
Period Furniture
You have found a spindle-back chair at an estate sale for $180, the seller calls it an antique Windsor chair, and you have...
Ceramics and Porcelain
You have a blue and white plate with a bridge, three figures, a pagoda and two birds, and you want to know whether it is 200...
Silver and Metalwork
You have a heavy old spoon, a small tray or a pair of napkin rings, and you want to know whether it is solid silver before you...
Prints, Maps and Books
The dealer's label says "engraving," the price says engraving, and you are standing in a fair hall with a print that might be a...
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Three named specialists, each with a different corner of the market. Every piece here carries a byline linked to everything else that person has written, and nothing goes up unless it has been tested against real purchase decisions.