Silver and Metalwork
Antique Silver Monograms and Whether to Remove Them
You have found a lovely Georgian teaspoon or a Victorian salver at a fair, and right in the middle sits someone else's...
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Everything we have published, newest first. Buying guides, identification notes, and the arguments we have had with advice that gets repeated without being tested.
Silver and Metalwork
You have found a lovely Georgian teaspoon or a Victorian salver at a fair, and right in the middle sits someone else's...
Prints, Maps and Books
The framed botanical on the dealer's wall has the right foxing, the right soft colours and a price tag of $340, and you cannot...
Care and Preservation
A sticky, dull film on an old chest of drawers is almost never age.
Period Furniture
You have found a spindle-back chair at an estate sale for $180, the seller calls it an antique Windsor chair, and you have...
Ceramics and Porcelain
You have a blue and white plate with a bridge, three figures, a pagoda and two birds, and you want to know whether it is 200...
Silver and Metalwork
You have a heavy old spoon, a small tray or a pair of napkin rings, and you want to know whether it is solid silver before you...