You can buy a 16th or 17th century five plank oak chest here for well under a grand.....
I've a feeling there's a similar one in Mark Hill's Italian pottery book. If I can find it, I'll check.
That's a woman. Some kind of fishwife, with a creel.
Agreed on Sicilian. Seen them there. (DIDn't we have a little cart on here a while back?)
it's actually very very unusual to get an auction house here behaving like this. Especially if you look at the kind of thing they're selling....
Like it. ;) But do please email TS if you've time. They'll add it to any evidence they have already. They can do and will prosecute.
That's very fishy. No reason your card could not be used. Trading Standards will be VERY interested. And if you want to, you could actually make a...
Was it these guys? https://www.eastbourneauction.com/ I'd be contacting our Trading Standards here. Let me know if you want details. Preseume...
Don't be misled by the glass. It was being machine rolled in the mid 19th C here. Having said that, it's a bit self conscious if that makes sense,...
Italian, yes, but not true Capodimonte, that went in the 19th century. Walter - wherever he is! - would know what the impressed mark is. I'd think...
Just brush the dust off, maybe wipe with an old soft towel, slightly damp. That's a nice plan chest to the left of it.
It's for filing index cards - I've seen them in legal departments of councils for example. Yours looks as though it is a library one. Dewey...
I've been there. From memory, there's an entrance that leads in a bit like that - suspect some artistic licence!
Coliseum, I'd say.
Sadly, the mirror isn't worth a great deal commercially. It's the fancy Art Deco ones that get money, so I think you're right to hang on to it.
One of the few alcohols I dislike - can't abide aniseed! With you on the bull thing.
I'd forgotten the new John Lewis ranges especially had some oak. But given the age of that, I really doubt it's oak - from memory, they weren't...
It's investment furniture. I have Ercol armchairs which will still be good in a couple of hundred years time. Unlike Ikea. ;)
The new versions of your chairs are £305 each. ;)
That's about a £400 to £600 set down here in London. The blonde beech/elm combo is the most popular and the fact that it's folding is very...
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