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    Collecting Guides

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    Christmas

    What are witch balls, and how can you buy them?

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    Collecting Guides

    A beginners guide to buying at auction

    Peter Henry Emerson, from ‘Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads’, 1886, est £70,000–£90,000 in Sotheby’s Classic Travel Photographs sale.
    Collecting Guides

    How to buy and collect antique photographs

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    An elegant tea party scene in a Georgian living room
    Antiques

    Vintage and antique teapot guide: how to collect teapots and the history of tea drinking in Britain

    Multi-gem set pendant ‘Regard’ necklace sold for £2,500 at Lyon & Turnbull.
    Collecting

    How to buy and collect antique acrostic jewellery

    Antique silver napkin rings on white frilly napkins
    Collecting Guides

    Antique napkin rings: how to collect and where to buy

    A Mauchline tartanware photo album c1890 made £475 at Lyon & Turnbull in 2019
    Experts

    Luke Honey’s Cabinet of Curiosities: tartanware

    ‘Old London Bridge’ Charles Osborne-patented corkscrew, Victorian (sold for £40,000 in November 2014).
    Collecting

    Antique corkscrews: how to collect and where to buy

    A vast collection of antique copper jelly moulds.
    Collecting

    Antique jelly moulds: how to collect and where to buy

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    A travel agent’s model by Bassett-Lowke for RMS Queen Mary c1960, sold by Charles Miller Ltd for £1,400.
    Collecting

    Antique model ships: how to collect and where to buy

    An embroidered table cloth on a dining table
    Collecting

    How to buy embroidered table linen

    Cliche garland, £500, Fileman Antiques.
    Collecting

    Antique glass paperweights: how to collect and where to buy

    Rectangular stool by Robert Thompson c1940, £1,800, Holly Johnson Antiques.
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    How to buy Mouseman furniture and the history of his designs

    An antiques dealer pointing at a glass display case full of Martin Brothers birds
    Collecting

    The history of Martin Brothers pottery birds

    A brightly coloured Pollock's toy theatre
    Experts

    The history of antique toy theatres

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