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by Christopher Proudlove© Fortunately for my bank manager, I don’t collect silver. If I did, the chance of finding – let alone affording – something made by Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751) is remote. One of the most celebrated and arguably greatest of all English gold and silversmiths, De Lamerie was a leading exponent of rococo [...]

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< by Christopher Proudlove© Few collectors of my generation will forget the debonair Arthur Negus and the BBC antiques television programme “Going for a Song”. The opening and closing sequences of that hugely influential and educating programme featured a singing bird automaton music box, not unlike the one illustrated here. Now, the chirping bird turning [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove© This feature is devoted to the breathtakingly beautiful, always valuable … and sometimes quite saucy products of Royal Saxon Porcelain Factory. There, that’s fooled you already. For those who have never heard of the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, read the German Meissen factory – one of the few firms to remain in [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove© Lovers and collectors of antiques, I urge you to see Miss Potter, the movie starring Renee Zellwegger detailing the life of Beatrix Potter. Go … now … I’ll pay! It’s a beautiful film, not least for the stunning Lake District countryside in which much of it is set and, of course the [...]

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