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Why a Verified Provenance Beats a Rumor
A piece arrives at a shop with a story attached, usually passed down verbally through a family and rarely written anywhere: it...
Founder and lead buyer, page 3 of 8
Dorothy spent fifteen years working auction rooms across the North of England before opening a dealership focused on Victorian and Edwardian pieces. She started this site because too much of what gets written about antiques either talks down to beginners or ignores them entirely.
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A piece arrives at a shop with a story attached, usually passed down verbally through a family and rarely written anywhere: it...
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A dealer who relies on a single estate sale company or one weekend market for inventory is one slow season away from an empty...
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An email arrives offering to appraise a piece of silver or a cabinet sight unseen, with a confident promise attached before...
Ceramics and Porcelain
A glaze is the first thing anyone notices about a piece of old pottery, and also one of the last things new collectors learn to...
Care and Preservation
A beaded 1920s evening dress that had been hung on a wire hanger for perhaps fifteen years came across my work table a few...
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A saleroom floor on a wet Tuesday morning and a phone screen lit up on a train are not obviously the same kind of place.