Susie Cooper With 15 years of collecting experience I am glad to say that the number of fakes, forgeries and problem items associated with the work of Susie Cooper is fairly low in relation to her total...
I have a few tips on purchasing antique pottery , porcelain and ceramics to help new collectors. First of all I would say collect a style of ceramics which you like, do not just follow a name or trend. I you...
BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BUYING ANTIQUE Porcelain Bronze ON EBAY: Primarily, when buying an antique on eBay you should have done enough research to know what it is you are buying. Ebay can be a minefield for the...
Care Repair;A Royal Worcester figurine collection can be enjoyed indefinately as long as care is taken when handling and cleaning.When dusting, in situ, a soft cosmetic brush or photographic lens brush is...
Real Fairings are small Victorian china ornaments,usually captioned,making a social,political,or humorous comment on English life from about 1850 to 1914.The First World War stopped the trade,because they...
Lustre-ware was without doubt the most affordable form of decoration on all manner of crockery throughout most of the 19th century. Therefore there's a lot of it about and not too much of it marked. So....how...
Gaudy Welsh is a rather elusive title for a body of ceramics that spanned near a century of production from the1820's of Hilditch to the 1920's of Charles Allerton. True,Welsh factories made their...
Since there appears to be no guides to buyers of Art Deco lighting I am offering this in the hope it may be useful to those about to take their first step to owning an icon of this fascinating period. Firstly,...
I sell china - it's all breakable, some is old and irreplaceable so a great deal of care is needed to get the item to the buyer in the same condition as it leaves me. Because many postal services won't...
'Sunderland lustre' has become the accepted name for all pottery decorated with pink lustre irrespective of its place of manufacture.During manufacture the applied gold leaf changed to pink. The pink areas...