Fiona Bruce sees what the viewers of BBC Antique Road Show does not see. She is right most people bring along tat, pure tat. I see it every day in my side of the business. People believe if it was owned by someone else in their family and it is old, it must be antique and valuable.

http://www.valuemystuff.com/ho w-it-works Why pay :mad: FROM :mad: nearly £4 per item to have it valued when here on SGB we do it free :d and from any leading auction house a valuation is free,

I wonder if it will be a good year for James Lawrence Isherwood the artist. I doubt it. I think the market has moved on by two years.

JUST SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT I HAVE AUCTIONED NOTE THE SIGNATURE edison pele Edison Arantes do Nascimento better known as Pelé , name given as Edison on birth certificate, born 21 October 1940 – however, Pelé himself claims that he was born on 23 October WAS a Brazilian footballer. He...

bench ends,off old bench from a southport railway station.very heavy cast iron.free to good home.:)pm me.

In about 1984, 5 people came into my shop dressed in a North American Indian / cowgirl clothing, studded leather etc. They all spoke in a American Southern drawl and had all made their way through the shop to a large French Bedroom suite that I had bought in Manchester from Harry Zammit. I was...

compass / telescope according to ebay............... buy now £65 when it went in auction it did not reach it's reserve £26 sounds cheap to me. a good buy

WILL THE LADY WHO CAME INTO MY SHOP ON TUESDAY 16TH APRIL WITH ABOUT 50 ITEMS TO HAVE VALUED . and left a brown bag with all the jewelry in it that you said was your daughters please return to the shop and collect it. You are the lady that rang your daughter from my shop to tell her that the...

Over the years I have seen many Tobacco Jars but this one in particular interest me. It is German and made in the 1870's by the Conta & Boehme factory who produced similar pieces at their factory in Possneck in Thuringia, Germany. I have owned this jar where the man is reading the Times and...

Thomas Russell is listed as a watchmaker in 1848 at 20 Slater Street, Liverpool and later at 30 Slater Street, Liverpool. About 1859 he appears to have handed over control of the company to his sons Thomas Robert Russell and Alfred Holgate Russell and the firm changed its name to Thomas Russell...

Monument remembering the 96 fans killed to be unveiled in Liverpool ahead of 24th anniversary The huge eight foot wide and seven foot tall structure has been cast in bronze and represents the football tragedy in Sheffield We must never forget this terrible disaster. We should all learn...

The BBC have again chosen Southport to film another show of the popular antique program Antiuqe Road Trip. They were filming outside John Nolan's Antique shop in Portland Street Southport this morning (Thursday 28th March 2013) . Antiques experts set off on a road trip around the UK...

Hi John (forgive the familiarity) I have a Victorian blanket chest (with original camphor stick) which I bought from a beautiful house in Renacres Lane 25 years ago for £60. It's a lovely piece but too big for my house now and so I want to get rid. Where is the best place to try to sell it do...

Eric Knowles has joined the team at Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions as a consultant. A familiar face on SOUTHPORT.GB AND on television, appearing regularly on high-profile antiques programmes and documentaries, he also writes for various newspapers and magazines about antiques generally and...

I have an old oak jewellery box, quite large that I need a replacement lock for or possibly a repair. It is in brass and measures 7.5cm x 3.5cm - anyone know where I can get one,please?

I keep finding interesting items from Liverpool, May be I should start collecting. :D:D:D:D:D this time it is the telescope owned by Josias Booker http://thomasaustinfamily.co. uk/1864.htm The History of Booker Line

The First silver dollar sets $8.5m world record for a coin 04 February 2013 Stack’s Bowers Galleries of Irvine, California, have set a new global auction record for a coin at a hammer price of $8.525m (£5.61m). Hundreds of enthusiasts, collectors, investors and dealers attended the...