Games
How Game Barn Finds Echo a House Clearance
Games love the barn find, the locked shed or forgotten attic you break into to discover crates of loot under the dust.
Ceramics and silver specialist, page 3 of 8
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.
Games
Games love the barn find, the locked shed or forgotten attic you break into to discover crates of loot under the dust.
Games
The most common chess set brought to me for an opinion is described by its owner as "an original Jaques Staunton, probably...
Care and Preservation
More antique textiles are lost to bad storage than to wear, because fabric left in the wrong conditions is quietly destroyed by...
Games
Plenty of online games ask you to judge an object by its markings.
Games
Anyone who has managed a bulging inventory in a long running online game has, without realising it, practised the patient work...
Games
Some games are built entirely around reading small clues, cross referencing them, and refusing to guess until the evidence...