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Eggcup Collecting
This egg stand is modelled as a basket decorated with sprays of blackberries and flowers. It is made from majolica and comes probably from a Staffordshire factory. Yours for £180-220 When Easter Bunny...
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Nelson’s diamond-encrusted scabbard that was discovered by police diver...
An ornate scabbard chape belonging to Admiral Lord Nelson - discovered on the bed of the River Thames by a police diver in the 1970s - has surfaced at auction for £70,000. It is believed the 6in long...
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Collecting Art Nouveau
Femme fleur: a 1896 lithograph by Alphonse Mucha titled Zodiac They tower over entrances to the Paris Métro like the tendrils of some giant metal plant. For the newcomer to both the city of romance and...
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Samplers
Imagine for a moment the reaction of your eight-year-old if you handed her or him (yes, him) a needle and a selection of coloured silk threads and said copy one of the embroidery pictures illustrated...
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Postcards
How I hate all those "weather terrific, wish you were here" kind of picture postcards from friends soaking up the sun. It's probably because I haven't had a summer holiday for a couple of years now ......
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Charlotte Rhead (The lost art of tube-lining)
Sold for £75 at Ewbank's The wonderful thing about collecting antiques is the constant learning process the hobby generates. Every visit to an auction sale, antique shop and flea market brings to light...
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Hornby Railways
Ah the folly of youth. My boyhood train set was a truly wondrous creation, built largely by its greatest fan ‑ my father ‑ and it had the works: Royal Mail van; Silver King engine and tender; Pullman...
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Honiton Pottery
A rare Honiton Pottery jug, probably painted by Vera Stuart with three trees in a park. I used to think it was only fruit and potato pickers who moved around the country finding work, but s I now know,...
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Flower Pictures
Orchid prints by John Nugent Fitch and worth £100-200 each I don’t do gardening, I’m a reader, not a weeder. Given the choice and the bank balance to match, I’d buy a collection of flower paintings by...
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Tulipomania
Picture shows an 18th century Dutch polychrome Delft two-handled tulip vase painted with flowers by Lambertus Van Eenhorn sold for £5,300. Photo: The Canterbury Auction Galleries. Fate - and a rather...
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