Tips for Building Your Vintage Collections
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Mind-Your-Own-Business Plants: A Growing and Care Guide
With a name like mind-your-own-business, you might expect a plant that keeps quietly to itself. In reality, this tiny-leaved favourite has quite di...
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Collecting Steiff Bears, Animals and Characters: What to Look For
Discover Steiff beyond teddy bears, from collector animals and character dolls to miniatures and ornaments, with practical advice on identification...
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Minton: Historic Ceramics, Majolica and Collecting
Explore Minton's Staffordshire history, colourful Victorian majolica, Parian ware and pâte-sur-pâte, with practical advice on marks, date codes, co...
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Carlton Ware: History, Patterns and Collecting
Explore Carlton Ware from Wiltshaw & Robinson to lustre wares, embossed tableware and Walking Ware, with advice on identifying marks, understan...
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Shelley and Wileman China: History, Shapes and Collecting
Discover the connected history of Wileman and Shelley china, distinctive shapes including Dainty and Queen Anne, and practical ways to assess marks...
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Midwinter Pottery: Stylecraft, Patterns and Collecting
Discover Midwinter Stylecraft, its rounded-square shapes and Jessie Tait patterns, with advice on distinguishing Fashion wares, identifying pieces ...
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Royal Worcester: Porcelain History, Identification and Collecting
Explore Royal Worcester porcelain, from its eighteenth-century origins to Blush Ivory and painted fruit, with practical advice on factory marks, ar...
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Spode Pottery: Transfer Printing, Bone China and Iconic Patterns
Explore Spode pottery, from underglaze transfer printing and bone china to Blue Italian, Christmas Tree and Woodland, with practical advice on back...
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Denby Pottery: From Bourne’s Stoneware to Vintage Arabesque
From Bourne’s practical stoneware bottles to Gill Pemberton’s Chevron and Arabesque, explore Denby’s history and practical advice for vintage colle...
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Portmeirion: Susan Williams-Ellis, Botanic Garden and Collecting Vintage Pieces
Explore Susan Williams-Ellis’s Portmeirion designs, from Totem to Botanic Garden, with practical advice on shapes, backstamps, condition and collec...
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Price & Kensington Pottery: History, Teapots and Collecting
Explore Price & Kensington's pottery history, its Price Brothers and Kensington roots, the appeal of its teapots and practical advice for colle...
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Wade Ceramics: History, Whimsies and Collecting Guide
Discover the story of Wade ceramics, from its Staffordshire pottery roots to Whimsies, Red Rose Tea figures and NatWest pigs, with practical collec...
