It is unlikely that you will come across many Elizabethan period items, so your research will most probably start with the English Commonwealth (1649-1660). These periods do have a specialist (if somewhat limited) following. Always…

One of the most overlooked aspects of collecting is the ambient conditions of the rooms into which you place your newly-acquired antiques. Often previous prevailing conditions will differ from yours. Naturally any antique will have survived…

A brief message from John: My earliest interest in antiques revolved around weekly visits (in 1946) to huge piles of dumped Japanese bronzes left outside their cities to be melted down for their war effort.…