You've just bought a Clarice Cliff from an antiques fair and are eager to make some money on eBay. How do you know whether it is genuine or counterfeit? This is a general guide to some of the common pitfalls....
THIS IS A GENERAL INFORMATION GUIDE ONLY AND IN MOST CASES WILL BE LIMITED TO GPO ‘BRITISH POST OFFICE’ EQUIPMENT IF YOU FIND THIS GUIDE HELPFUL, PLEASE VOTE NOTES ON BUYING TELEPHONES SOME COMMON SENSE IS...
Antique clocks The term " Antique " does cover a very large grey area as to date of manufacture or origin of any clock. Personally I would class antique as before 1920. Antique clocks come in a very large...
ONLY ONE OF THESE SILVER ROMAN COINS IS A GENUINE COIN, THE REAL THING, CAN YOU SPOT IT??? As many as 30 - 40 % of ancient coins sold on ebay, at the moment,are modern fakes. So be patient about which coin...
Update June 08 - I wrote this guide over 2 years ago now and as such most of the information in here is now out dated. I am not going to update it with new series models and colour codes as I have not been...
I've been trading on Ebay for many years now, specialising in vintage lighting from Europe. In the last six months I've noticed alot of cheap reproduction lighting purporting to be vintage or even antique! ...
I have tried a few different intercoms and basically it comes down to the age old saying of 'You get what you pay for'. Tried some cheapy £30 intercoms from Argos and they were fine . until you started moving!...
There are some very convincing reproduction enamel cast iron signs entering the market at the moment. The signs are well made fakes designed to fool you into thinking they are genuine. Even experts have...
Ever since the beginning of mankind and during the growth of several civilizations, there was a need to keep prisoners and to enslave people. This was necessary to have an inexpensive labor force to form...