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nutcrackers There's a smell of spices in the air at this time of the year with the baking of Christmas cakes, stollen, mince pies, reaching...
The new December issue of BBC Home and Antiques has a cracking article on antique nutcrackers with several nutcrackers featured from our current stock. Enjoy the read and let us know if you have...
The most common question I'm asked is where do you buy your antique treen from, and prior to be becoming a dealer myself I also wondered this?
Well several sources is the answer, a lot of...
nutcrackers Someone asked me the other day whether they could use their Antique Treen Nutcracker for cracking nuts. It's a risk these lovely antique nutcrackers...
I love cheese, hard, soft, smoked etc but today we have plenty of health warnings not to eat too much of it, shame. Back in the 18th and 19th century hard cheese was very important in your diet,...
I bought a small collection of snuff box shoes the other day and it got me thinking about how snuff taking was introduced into Britain and why it became such a popular habit. Initially snuff...
Treen I have been looking at spice towers recently, they were mainly made from sycamore or boxwood and were a particularly speciality in the Sussex area.
These...
candleboxes Did you know candle boxes were originally made to protect precious candles from being eaten by rats, mice and...
