Starting a Collection
Vintage Casino Chips and Cards as Period Collectibles
I bought my first serious lot of vintage casino chips at a country auction in Yorkshire in 2019, mostly because nobody else...
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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
My grandfather kept a small tin of what he called his pocket lucks in the top drawer of his desk.
Period Furniture
I have taken apart three period card tables in my restoration career, two Georgian and one late Victorian, and each one taught...
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...
Starting a Collection
The wall of my workshop has a Vincent enamel sign from 1948 hanging above the bench, and I paid 60 pounds for it in 2003 at a...
Prints, Maps and Books
I catalogued a private library in Norfolk in 2018 that contained roughly 1,200 Victorian bindings.