Antique Treen Candle Stools or Dresser Stools?
Have you ever seen a small antique stool with turned legs, too small to sit on or put your feet on and wonder what it was used for?...
Antique Candle Boxes
No two antique candle boxes are the same, differing in size, timbers, inlay, shape of the backboards, secret drawers, side openings...
Antique Spice Towers - look closely at the labels!
In a previous blog on spice towers I mentioned that when antique spice towers were bought they would have been blank, with no labels....
Little Pots of Treasure - Antique Treen Pounce Pots
I am frequently asked what a pounce pot is for, these pots were used to store pounce which was a fine ground powder made initially from ...
Antique Treen Boxes
What a diverse area Antique treen boxes cover! The modern definition of a box is a container with a flat base, sides typically square or...
Antique Treen Bowls Tactile and Useful!
There is nothing quite like a good antique treen bowl carved by hand or turned on a lathe many years ago and think of the tree grown many...
Antique apothecary measures or egg cups.....?
They look like egg cups, turned in boxwood, one end for a hens egg the other for a ducks egg..... but no that is not their purpose. These...
Old timers ..........Sand glasses
How times have changed....... when we boil an egg we will use an electronic timer, phone or watch but this was not always the case. Have...
Antique treen gingerbread moulds and antique gingerbread recipes
When we think of gingerbread thoughts go to a yummy cake or even gingerbread men but it wasn't always like that. Ginger was originally...
Take a closer look at antique treen
It's worth taking a closer look at some pieces of antique treen as there is often small characteristics which make these antique treen...
