Ceramics and Porcelain
How to Spot a Hidden Repair on Antique Porcelain
A Worcester sauce boat sold at a country sale I attended was catalogued as "fine condition" and fetched nearly three times its...
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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
Every few weeks someone brings me a framed Hiroshige snow scene from a house clearance, certain it is worth a small fortune...
Prints, Maps and Books
At a provincial sale a few years ago, two copies of the same 1790s botanical engraving sold twenty minutes apart.
Period Furniture
Veneer has a bad reputation among new buyers, who tend to treat the word as a warning that a piece is cheap or not really...
Games
Game artists spend enormous effort making new objects look old.
Prints, Maps and Books
A framed county map turns up in almost every house clearance sale I have ever viewed.