Category Archives: auction finds etc.

Shine on Hester Bateman

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Editor

Because I’m lucky enough to have birthday and Christmas close but not so close that the presents are combined, I have recently been on the receiving end of a few small silvery items gifted by thoughtful friends. Together they tell … Continue reading →

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The great silver rush of May 2013

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Editor

Recently we spotted a little silver tray – three legs and in good solid plate with a little copper showing through – but otherwise unmarked. It was lot 2 in the local sale so it didn’t take long to acquire. … Continue reading →

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The House in Good Taste.

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Editor

I discovered the book almost by accident. Stooping to look through a box of indifferent books at the local auction mart I came across its very strange cover. Elsie de Wolfe’s The House in Good Taste, has an almost defiant … Continue reading →

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William IV – the overlooked.

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Editor

Despite this blog’s subtitle, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Peter Wells decorate an Edwardian house, there doesn’t seem to be too much going on around here that’s Edwardian – well not recently. Things seem to have settled into a period around 70 years … Continue reading →

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Blue and White [and Broken]

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Editor

Today’s haul from the auction house was spotted the day it was unloaded from the truck, a whole week prior to the general estate sale. My eyes went immediately to an old wooden apple box filled with old plates. My … Continue reading →

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Candle Power

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Editor

Readers of this blog might well be lead to the conclusion that there is something bargain-led about the décor selections here – particularly as buying things cheap at auction is a reoccurring theme. However although we might be a little … Continue reading →

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Two new Victorians with no place to go

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Editor

I aquired this painting some time back, unframed, glued to a backing board and in a not entirely happy state. It is by Frank Holl, one of those romantic English painters who died early and is not well remembered – … Continue reading →

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silver and sunshine

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Editor

I am thrilled with this week’s auction haul. Maidens & Foster had a good estate showing this week and I left a long list of absentee bids. Although I didn’t get my number 1 item – a lovely big Winchcombe … Continue reading →

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Operation Yellow Sofa

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Editor

We have a yellow sofa. It is a Victorian piece picked up at a Cordy’s sale. When we saw it we were bowled over by its rugged attractions and amused to hear that it had passed unloved through a least … Continue reading →

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Grandmother’s couch

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Editor

Sometime ago Douglas and I began to think we probably needed a couch in our bedroom. We wanted to read in more comfort than we could sitting on a chair and wanted something on which you could also slump, in … Continue reading →

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