Silver hallmarks - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBThe hallmarks on a piece of antique British silver typically signify (from left to right): the maker, the purity, the assay office, the date it was assayed and the duty mark (for items from 1784 to 1890). Image courtesy of I Franks Antique Silver. Nine silver hallmarks of different assay offices in the UK and Ireland, some of which have now closed.
Guide to Buying English Drinking Glasses - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBIt has ‘Jacobite’ engraving to the bowl and a red, blue, green and opaque white colour twist stem. It sold for £7500 at Bonhams in November 2019. This 7in (17.5cm) high cider glass of c.1740-50 engraved to the generous bowl with a branch of apples or oranges sold for £1400 at Bonhams in November 2019.
Guide to Buying Beswick - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBThis time round it made £4700. A version of the traditional Beswick Shire Horse in a highly unusual strawberry roan colourway which sold for £6600 at Potteries Auctions in June 2017. Beswick first produced this model in 1940, originally in the most common brown colour that sells today at auction for around £15.
Guide to Buying Whitefriars Glass - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBThe factory's designs, now shown at major exhibitions around the world, moved with fashion. Whitefriars was the glass maker of choice for Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau proponents such as W.A.S. Benson and Charles R. Ashbee, while the inter-War period and a move to a new state of the art factory in Wealdstone, West London in 1923 occasioned a series of colourful Art Deco wares enlivened by ...
Guide to Buying Antique Furniture - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBIt sold for a hammer price of £3800 at Dreweatts of Donnington Priory in March 2019. Practical, stylish and often surprisingly affordable, antique furniture remains a popular area both for collectors and also for buyers looking to furnish their homes. The fact that antique furniture also represents a ‘green’ option compared to buying ...
Guide to Buying Chess Sets - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBBuyers should always be aware of the current regulations on the trade in antique ivory objects. Size – typically the larger the better. Quality of carving – this is particularly pertinent to the many Indian and Chinese ivory chess sets exported in great numbers to Europe in the 19th century that can vary in price from two- and modest three ...
Guide to Buying Lowestoft Porcelain - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBA 2¾in (7cm) Lowestoft model of a swan from c.1770-80 which was offered from the English porcelain collection formed by Gerald and Brenda Flowerday at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter in January 2018. With provenance to the Lowestoft dealer and collector Margaret Corson, it sold at £4400.
News Topics - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEB5 days ago · Cabinet showing 17th century ‘globalisation’ in action makes over 90 times estimate 02 October 2024. Due to the fact that they represent a meeting of three continents and cultures, barniz de Pasto (Pasto varnish) boxes have recently been described by Jorge F Rivas Perez, curator of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, as ‘some of the first works of a globalised world’.
Guide to Buying Antique Firearms - Antiques Trade Gazette
WEBEarly sporting guns remain good value to collectors looking for rare examples of experimental locks and priming systems. This rare cased 16-bore mushroom-primer percussion gun with accessories sold for £4200 at Bonhams in London in July 2010. A 15-bore sporting gun by Joseph Gulley of London. Two factors which helped push the …
Antiques Trade Gazette | Art, Antique & Auction News
WEB2 days ago · Top stories this week including news that the Ivory Act extension will come into force ‘when time allows’. The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news that the incoming ban on antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusk trade has been delayed. 06 October 2024.