It is a minefield if buying a Samurai sword on the web, here are some simple guideline from questions I have been asked. {As you will by now be aware,ebay has taken the steps to stop "Samurai" swords being...
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...
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...
My dear old Mum-in-law bought me a ceramic figure, one of the eight immortals. Not from the web or ebay but from a dealer in Cornwall. He told the 83 year old that it was by a Japanese called 'Lu Dong Bin'...
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...
THE FACTORY -WMF ( Wurttembergische Metallwaren Fabrik ) The firm WMF were producing metal ware in different styles: * Classical * Art Nouveau ( Jugendstil ) * Art Deco * Celtic / Viking revival * Bauhaus...
Judaica Kiddush Cups and Ceremonial Goblets Buying Guide Before each main meal on Shabbats and festivals, and at various special ceremonies such as weddings and circumcisions. A blessing is recited over a...
This is my first guide so be gentle...Ive never found a Definitive list of Irish Car Boot Sales Markets and as a kitchenalia seller i spend a lot of my time looking for them. Markets can vary greatly in style...