Starting a Collection
From Collector to Dealer, and How the Money Changes
Almost every antiques dealer started as a collector. At some point the collection outgrew the shelves, the knowledge got deep...
Ceramics and silver specialist, page 6 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.
Starting a Collection
Almost every antiques dealer started as a collector. At some point the collection outgrew the shelves, the knowledge got deep...
Games
There is a quiet satisfaction in restoring something old and worn back toward its former state, and a number of online games...
Games
To someone outside the hobby, the idea that a purely digital item could feel precious sounds strange.
Games
Walk through the old quarter of a well made historical game and the detail can stop you in your tracks.
Silver and Metalwork
The Victorian sporting revival produced a category of silverware that is distinctive, plentiful, and still relatively...
Starting a Collection
My grandfather kept a small tin of what he called his pocket lucks in the top drawer of his desk.