Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

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Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

from the editor

Curios • a name in antiques… bernard moore

Glamour in Time: The Clocks of Cartier • NO OTHER MAISON OF THE 20th CENTURY COULD SET TRENDS LIKE CARTIER. ITS WILD CELEBRATION OF GLAMOUR AND THE EXOTIC SPILLED OVER INTO SOME OF THE MOST LUXURIOUS AND OVER-THE-TOP CLOCK DESIGNS THE WORLD HAS SEEN.

What's Hot or Not: How Did We Do? • BACK IN 2014, WE INTRODUCED A SECTION IN THE MAGAZINE CALLED WHAT'S HOT AND WHAT'S NOT WHICH WE RAN FOR FOUR YEARS. AS WE LOOK BACK OVER 100 ISSUES, IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD TIME TO SEE HOW ACCURATE SOME OF THOSE PREDICTIONS WERE…

A Rare Bird • FRENCH SCULPTOR PAUL COMOLERA PRODUCED WORK FOR MINTON FOR JUST THREE YEARS FROM 1873 TO 1876, BUT DURING THAT TIME HE CREATED SOME OF THE COMPANY'S GREATEST ANIMAL MODELS.

it's a snippet • Snatches of information too small for a feature and too interesting to ignore…

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A Galloping Freak • HE CAME LAST IN HIS FIRST RACE AND WAS SO UNIMPRESSIVE WHEN HE ARRIVED AT HIS TRAINING STABLES THAT HIS OWNER HANDED ALL RESPONSIBILITY OVER TO THE TRAINER. AND IN HIS SECOND YEAR OF RACING, THE HORSE WON 19 RACES FROM 21 STARTS. SO BEGAN THE LEGEND OF PHAR LAP.

The Melbourne Cup • FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 165 YEAR HISTORY, THE COVETED MELBOURNE CUP HAS BEEN HANDCRAFTED USING PURE AUSTRALIAN ABC BULLION GOLD SOURCED ENTIRELY FROM THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

The Mystery of Mary Gregory Style Glass (Part One) • OVER THE PAST 50 YEARS THERE HAS BEEN MUCH CONTROVERSY ABOUT MARY GREGORY AND SO-CALLED MARY GREGORY GLASS. SPECIALIST COLLECTOR JOHN FRITH HAS UNDERTAKEN EXTENSIVE RESEARCH TO PRESENT A CONSIDERED ACCOUNT OF THE QUESTION: DID MARY GREGORY REALLY PAINT MARY GREGORY GLASS?

Marcasite: Controlled Brilliance

Exploring the World's Biggest Hobby • MOST COLLECTORS FIND SOMETHING THAT ENCHANTS THEM AND DECIDE TO FORM A COLLECTION AROUND THAT INTEREST. SOME, LIKE RICHARD ALSTON, LAUNCH INTO UNRESTRAINED JOY AT COLLECTING WHATEVER CATCHES THEIR EYE. IT BECAME, AS HE EXPLAINS TO ROB DITESSA, A BIT OF A HABIT.

Purchase Knowledge • HOW DO YOU BUY YOUR DECORATIVE ARTS, AND HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU WITH YOUR PURCHASES? TIRA LEWIS FROM THE AAADA LOOKS AT PURCHASE KNOWLEDGE.

Rock Star of the English Baroque • HE WAS DESCRIBED AS HAVING ‘ALL THE FIRE AND POWER OF MICHELANGELO AND BERNINI’. A PLAYWRIGHT WITH NO FORMAL TRAINING IN ARCHITECTURE, JOHN VANBRUGH DESIGNED SOME OF BRITAIN'S GRANDEST BUILDINGS. IN 2026, THREE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, HE'S BEING HAILED AS ‘THE ORIGINAL STARCHITECT’.

A Controversial Cranke • ANTIQUE PRINT SPECIALIST KATHRYN NICHOLLS REVEALS AN ARTISTIC CRANKE - PASSIONATE ABOUT ART, FLOWERS, AND THE LOCAL NURSERYMAN'S DAUGHTER.

Sitting Pretty • THE PRACTICE OF SIDESADDLE RIDING, AN ELEGANT FORM OF EQUESTRIANSHIP WHERE THE RIDER (HISTORICALLY FEMALE) SITS WITH BOTH LEGS ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE HORSE, HAS A HISTORY STRETCHING BACK TO ANTIQUITY WRITES ALICE BEDLINGTON.

‘Curious Wooden Ware’ • TUNBRIDGE WARE MAY WELL HOLD THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE FIRST PURPOSE-MADE SOUVENIR TO BE PRODUCED IN BRITAIN. RICHARD LAST INVESTIGATES.

One Hundred Years of Australian Collecting • FROM CIGARETTE CARDS TO POKÉMON, GRAMOPHONES TO SMARTPHONES: ALMOST ANYTHING IS COLLECTABLE. BUT IS IT, REALLY? DEBRA PALMEN LOOKS AT THE THINGS WE'VE GONE CRAZY FOR...