Care and Preservation
How to Clean a Cloudy Antique Glass Decanter Safely
You found a lovely Georgian or Victorian decanter, but the inside looks milky and no amount of rinsing shifts it.
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Sybil grew up in a family of dealers. Her first job was cataloguing a private collection of Staffordshire figures and sterling flatware, and she has been reading marks and assessing condition ever since. She has a particular patience for pieces that arrive with no paperwork.
Care and Preservation
You found a lovely Georgian or Victorian decanter, but the inside looks milky and no amount of rinsing shifts it.
Ceramics and Porcelain
You turn a teacup over at a fair, find no mark at all, and the dealer says "fine porcelain" while the label says "bone china."...
Ceramics and Porcelain
You turn over a blue and white plate at an estate sale and the pattern has bled into a soft haze, as if someone breathed on it...
Silver and Metalwork
Turn over a German cake fork or an Italian bonbon dish and you will often find a tiny "800" stamped beside a crescent moon or a...
Ceramics and Porcelain
A Worcester sauce boat sold at a country sale I attended was catalogued as "fine condition" and fetched nearly three times its...
Prints, Maps and Books
A framed county map arrives on my table about once a month with the same story attached.