How can you tell if your precious heirlooms are genuine antiques or ordinary household items? This guide tells you some of the more obvious pitfalls. Provenance - This means that you are certain of where the...
The aim of this guide is to help sellers add the correct information into a ceramics listing to hopefully answer potential questions buyers may have. This will help you in several ways which I will detail...
Clarice was born in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, England, the daughter of Harry Thomas Cliff and Ann Machin; her father was the great-great-great grandson of Thomas Wedgwood IV (1716-1773), the eldest brother of...
Selling and Buying Old Sheet Music There are various different reasons people collect and buy old sheet music. Primarily the item is a musical one so the buyer will likely be a musician whether amateur or...
Myott, Son Co. Lld was founded by Ashley Myott in 1898 in Staffordshire, expanding in the late 1920s to form the 'Alexander Potteries'. At this time, they also expanded their traditional tableware range to...
An Introduction to Cement Encaustic Tiles Towards the end of the 1950s, the arrival of Italian terrazzo, followed a short time later by ceramic floor coverings, lead to the almost complete disappearance of...