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During the 18th and 19th century drinking good wine was a way of demonstrating your wealth and your good taste, particularly when import...

This is a very interesting snuff box in many ways. Firstly the image on the lid, based on Josiah Wedgwood’s workshop’s designs of the...

These two antique treen snuff boxes are both carved as a horse's head. Similar but also very different. Images 1-7 are of the slightly...

Who doesn't love an antique box? They come in all shapes and sizes and for a variety of functions from sewing, to writing, jewellery to...

Here is an 19thCentury Tunbridge Ware box from the early 1810/20’s with so many positive attributes. Firstly the wonderful parquetry top,...

Prisoners of War particularly the French but other nationalities as well used their time whilst in captivity in the British prisons to...

Some antiques definitely warrant a closer look and this is one of them. An antique snuff box in the shape of a book, but look closer as...

I have written about antique treen knitting sheaths before. The importance of the knitting industry and the wide array of knitting...

Christmas is approaching and fireside family images spring to mind. But how about a look at the sort of games and toys being played in...

Dissected puzzles better known as jigsaws these days, (only called this after the jigsaw tool had been invented in the 19th century),,...