Poole Pottery, based in the town of Poole in Dorset, was set up in 1873 as Carter and Co. and they started out by mainly making architectural ceramics (tiles and ornamental ceramics used in buildings). By the...
Plastic collectables Most collectors of vintage plastics really know their subject. Labelling any and every old plastic item as “Bakelite ” and hoping for the best is a certain recipe for grief, angry buyers...
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...
Fabric A - Z Below is an A - Z list of modern and traditional words or terms used in the dressmaking and soft furnishing industry. Trade names and companies are included. Many International words are...
I recently bought a cuckoo clock from USA. Including P P I paid 34 pounds, (good deal), did the paypal, recived the clock after about 10 days. Everything rosy in the garden. Today I received an invoice from...
There are still good swords out there!!!! Recently I was asked to bid on a sword for a friend as he would be away, auction rooms are not my favorite place and never have been but as a favour ( a bottle of...
True Chinese Porcelain has been produced since the end of the fourteenth century, hundreds of years before the secrets of porcelain production were discovered in the Western World. Up until the seventeenth...
Ceramic: Handmade and Factory-made Pieces - Dream Art Gallery As in all other fields of applied art, it is fundamental also with ceramics to distinguish between handmade wares and wares produced industrially,...
Ceramic - Techniques Of Decoration - Dream Art Gallery The manner in which colours have been applied to a ceramic surface offers reliable clues to dating an item, clues which can be seen by the nacked eye...
Types Of Boxes Boxes have existed it seems for ever .Even today its good advice to keep the box in case you need to return or resell an item Boxes have always been used to store specific items,A caddy to keep...