Collecting

A living room with a brown leather sofa, red armchair and a coffee table littered with antique globes. A large antique map hangs on the wall behind the sofa.

How to collect and display antique maps and globes

A 23.5cm jug attributed to either Fremington or Bideford features a royal unicorn and is dated 1788. It is on sale at E&H Manners for £17,500.

Collecting Harvest jugs

Piscatorial Taxidermy

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: piscatorial taxidermy

Tyntesfield

Behind the scenes at the museum: Tyntesfield

GAP Interiors/The CONTENTed Nest; James Bolston Photography

Collecting vintage and antique books

Frans Hals The laughing Cavalier

Famous Frans Hals painting featured in London museum

Chawton House

Behind the scenes at the museum: Chawton House

Derby Silk Mill - image [c] Derby Museums

Behind the scenes at the museum: Museum of Making

The Wallace Collection

Behind the scenes at the museum: The Wallace Collection

Antique truncheons and tipstaves

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: truncheons & tipstaves

Full Set of Original James Bond Books by Ian Fleming UK First Edition

First-edition James Bond books: are they worth collecting?

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: Napoleonic memorabilia

Antique dummy board beside fireplace © National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel

Collecting antique dummy boards

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

Pony Premo / Credit VintageCashCow.co.uk

Popular vintage cameras and how to sell them