Antiques for Everyday: The Butter Dish Incident

Among my recurring spiels is the idea of Everyday Antiques , that is, that Antique are Green , cost effective and sustainable, and that thei...

eBay Pitfall No.1 - The Shill (Schill)

Buying Safely on eBay This is the first post in a short series we'll do on the eBay pitfalls we identified in an earlier post . Martin a...

That Qianlong Vase, Again

You know the one.  It sold for umpteen million pounds last November, blowing the former record price out of the water. Well, people are now ...