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Collector’s Notes: Blue and White Chinese Porcelain
An overview of blue and white Chinese porcelain for the budding collector that delves into the history and how to authenticate antique porcelains. Think you’ve got a consuming passion for decorating with blue and white Chinese porcelain? Take a look at these obsessive displays! Image via La Gazette Drouot Don’t be confused by the perspective.…
Read MoreCollector’s Notes: Antique Prints
The basics of collecting antique prints, including print making techniques, history, and how to identify different types. Antique prints are a wonderful way to bring a window to the past into your home: Usually, they are moderately priced and collectable; There is a vast variety in subject matter that has been brilliantly and artistically rendered;…
Read MoreCollector’s Notes: Antique Plates
Useful basics to understand when collecting antique plates and ceramics from European porcelains to folksy Staffordshire and Chinese export to transferware. If you are a lover of china or collector of antique ceramics, your china cabinet or kitchen cupboards probably hold one or more of these ceramics: No. 1 Porcelain Commonly referred to as “china”…
Read MoreThe Antique Collector’s Tool Kit
Just 4 little things are essential to help you authenticate vintage and antiques! Sometimes our senses are not adequate to determine what a curio is, its date, or what it is made of, so we need the right tools to use when examining it. I recommend keeping a tool kit with you when you go…
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P&P Guides A comprehensive 15 page e-guide to help you evaluate Rose Medallion porcelains and determine: Age Quality Value Get the Guide! The Grandmillennial’s Pocket Guide to Chic Antiques is full of insider knowledge about the antiques you love. I’m sharing my years of expertise, laying out specifics on 20 different coveted antiques from opaline glass to…
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Read MoreRose Medallion 101: Building a Collection
A Collector’s guide to understanding and buying Rose Medallion. What makes Rose Medallion so appealing? Is it the darling details? The whimsical flora and fauna? The curious figures strolling about in gardens? Or perhaps the vibrant play of colors? No doubt the appeal is a combination of all of these characteristics, and really it is…
Read MoreAn Eye for the Good Stuff
Tips to develop your eye to find quality antiques and vintage amongst the topsy-turvy hoard in thrifts, consignments, and estate sales! This can be such a frustrating maxim that experts in the antiques field throw out like confetti. As frustrating as it may be to hear when you start out collecting or selling antiques that…
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