Sell or keep these antiques?
Today’s installment on Selling your Antiques and Collectibles is the final part of my guide to selling your antiques. This examines if you should sell now or if it is worth keeping for the future. Reasons to hang on to or sell your antiques ( other than you love them) could include:
- - financial investment
- - Sentimental reasons
- - Space considerations
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Genuine Troika Vase
Beware buyers of Troika pottery – it looks like there are fakes being sold on eBay – this means that they will soon make their way into the sale rooms and fairs. Apparently someone has the original Troika molds and is painting them himself!
I first read about these fakes on the Antiques Trade Gazette website which says :
Seasoned buyers told ATG that discrepancies exist between these recently decorated wares and those made by the factory prior to closure. In particular, the colour palette is wrong for the early 1980s period and, when placed side-by-side, the painters’ marks and painted factory signatures differ greatly from originals. The repainted wares also lack the white/cream gloss glaze that one would expect to the interior of a factory-finished piece.
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I am going to spend the next few posts examining the different materials vintage brooches were made from . Hopefully this will help you to identify the ones you have – please do mail me if there is anything interesting you would like covered or you think I am going to miss ( Always quite possible)
Here is a quick list but I am sure to think of a few more as I go along
Precious metals ( Gold, silver, platinum)
None precious metals ( copper, brass, silver plate, mixed metals, pewter, Iron, Steel and stainless steel, pot metal, pinchbeck)
Gemstones ( precious, semi-precious, hardstones and imitation)
Wood, Jet, Plastics of all types, glass, Bone & Ivory, Hair,
Pottery and porcelain, Rubber, Gutta Percha, Horn
enamel, butterfly wings, shell, paper ( including paintings), leather, insects ( scarabs)
Coral, pearls
and anything else I can find an example of ……………..
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I am going to spend the next few posts examining the different materials vintage brooches were made from . Hopefully this will help you to identify the ones you have – please do mail me if there is anything interesting you would like covered or you think I am going to miss ( Always quite possible)
Here is a quick list but I am sure to think of a few more as I go along
Precious metals ( Gold, silver, platinum)
None precious metals ( copper, brass, silver plate, mixed metals, pewter, Iron, Steel and stainless steel, pot metal, pinchbeck)
Gemstones ( precious, semi-precious, hardstones and imitation)
Wood, Jet, Plastics of all types, glass, Bone & Ivory, Hair,
Pottery and porcelain, Rubber, Gutta Percha, Horn
enamel, butterfly wings, shell, paper ( including paintings), leather, insects ( scarabs)
Coral, pearls
and anything else I can find an example of ……………..
omega lighter
These days smoking is seen as anti-social, un-healthy and is banned in public places. Years ago, before medical science proved that your health was in danger, more people smoked and over the years a wide range of smoking related items were manufactured.
Many such as the Vesta Case have dissapeared from everyday life today but there remains a large collectors market for antique and vintage smoking related items. Read More→
I receive several questions through this site every day and try and answer where I can. Please can you help me by providing a correct e.mail address? Why? Well I often need to clarify your question or ask you to send photos so that I can answer correctly; For example here is a question I received today: Read More→
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Have you ever seen genuine Georgian Jewellery? This is the earliest Jewellery which can be readily be bought today which is still in wearable condition.
The Georgians (1714 – 1837) loved their finery including all their Jewellery. Much of it is very very expensive today however original Georgian locket pin brooches remain quite affordable as they are quite small and often plain and made in relatively large numbers.
These small brooches are have a central glass covered compartment on the front which was normally used to keep a memento in – this was often a lock of a loved ones hair. Some were memorials to a departed relative and often have the name and dates of the remembered on the reverse. Others uses these brooches to keep a snippet of a sweethearts or beloved pets hair in.
AntiquesAvenue offers a selection of
antique brooches including Georgian locket pins.
