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75Collecting Beswick Animals
If you mention collecting Beswick animals immediately spring to mind and Beswick has had a reputation for ceramic sculptures of animals that is second to none. Although there were a number of years when...
1 comment72Collecting Whitefriars Glass
It was only a few years ago that Whitefriars glass was completely ignored by collectors, yet now the prices for its Banjo and Drunken Bricklayer vases are around £1,000 each. Not so long ago you could...
1 comment68Collecting Silver Spoons
Collecting silver spoons falls into two categories - you can collect decorative spoons, purely for display, or you can collect some of the many Georgian, Victorian and later silver spoons and use them. They...
1 comment70Tips on collecting Royal Crown Derby China
The Royal Crown Derby factory opened in Derby in 1748 and is still in operation today. Skills have been handed down from generation to generation and today's artists still work in the old traditions of...
2 comments51Designing your Garden
The essence of a good garden lies in the design and you should start with a definite plan. Get a large piece of graph paper and draw your plot and don't forgot to include the house, any paths, existing...
0 comments73Collecting Vintage Fountain Pens
In this age of the word processor we have completely lost the art of producing hand written notes and therefore have little use for fountain pens. If we do hand-write anything we tend to use a cheap ball...
0 comments66Collecting Travel Posters
Nowadays we think of travel posters as a piece of nostalgia or a pretty print to put on the wall, 100 years ago travel posters played a key role in luring the traveller with their dreamy views that made...
1 comment76Collecting Men's Vintage Watches
Once upon a time vintage watches were solely for collectors, but nowadays they are fast becoming the essential 'must haves'. Men's magazines when portraying the 'smart' look tend to feature expensive modern...
0 comments73Collecting Troika Pottery
Troika pottery was designed and produced in the Sixties in St Ives, Cornwall, by Leslie Illsley and Benny Sirota. Its designs represented architectural forms and shapes: pottery simply as an art form. ...
1 comment72Collecting Character Bears
The actor Peter Bull owned a little Teddy Bear called Theodore who was his constant companion and always travelled in the actor's pocket. Peter wrote a book called 'Bear With Me' Theodore, as well as Peter...
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