Silver and Metalwork
Reading Hallmarks on Old Silver
Pick up a piece of old English silver and turn it over, and you will usually find a row of tiny stamped symbols hidden along an...
Founder and lead buyer, page 6 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.
Silver and Metalwork
Pick up a piece of old English silver and turn it over, and you will usually find a row of tiny stamped symbols hidden along an...
Starting a Collection
Among period collectibles, few objects divide a room like an antique gaming machine.
Starting a Collection
Serious collecting is not a sedentary pursuit. The image of the collector in a quiet study, surrounded by objects acquired...
Starting a Collection
I bought my first serious lot of vintage casino chips at a country auction in Yorkshire in 2019, mostly because nobody else...
Starting a Collection
The first coin-operated gambling machine I saw in the flesh was a Mills Liberty Bell from around 1912, sitting in the back room...
Prints, Maps and Books
The oldest tarot deck I have handled personally was a Marseille-pattern deck printed in Belgium around 1875, in a small...