We specialize in items with a British accent from antiques to fun typically English pieces. We love Shelley, Royal Doulton, knife rests, open salts, Dunoon mugs,victoriana, estate jewelry, teapots, teacups, ANYTHING for the tea table and anything BrillianT!
This is a wonderful antique Regency figural knife rest that I brought back from England recently. The knife rest is silver plated metal and cleaned up very well and has all it's silver plating. The knife rest features 2 upright crested birds that look like cranes or storks or maybe even phoenixes. The knife rest measures 4.75 inches long, 2.5 inches wide, 2 high and has hand made square nots and dates to the Regency period around the Napoleonic wars. Knife rests were a handy gadget designed ...click for details
This exquisite demitasse tea cup and saucer set is by George Jones Crescent china of England and is of embossed ironstone. It is in the Shannon pattern and is really beautiful. Besides the heavy floral embossing it has wonderful celtic art nouveau green borders. The cup is 2+ inches high by 2.25 in diameter and the saucer is 4.5 in diameter. The teacup and saucer is in excellent, mint condition with no chip or cracks. Lovely! Shipping in the US by USPS priority insured is $7.90.
This is an antique pressed glass double knife rest with the pressed mark Val St Lambert Belgique made in Belgium 1900-1920. The knife rest measures 1.5 inches high by 4.25 long by .75 inches wide and has a curver bar and projecting horn like ends. The knife rest or holder is made to take 2 knives and is in very good +++ condition with only a slight roughness from minute chips from use on the base of one end that can't be seen, only felt. The knife rest is part of an English estate knife rest ...click for details
This is an antique set of six sterling silver tea spoons from 1850-1890 in the English Rat Tail design by P. Griffin of Albany, New York USA. The teaspoons measures 5.75 inches long and have the monogram JH in victorian script on the finial. They are marked with a griffin with a circle and the word Sterling. An elegant set of spoons for your tea table or after dinner coffee. Shipping in the US by USPS priority insured.
This is a marvelous bowl in the Viking pattern (similar to Furnival's Denmark) made @1910 by Ridgways pottery Hanley, Staffordshire England of a material called Royal Semi Porcelain--a form of ironsrone. The bowl measures 10.5 inches long including handles by 3.5 inches high by 9 inches in diameter. The casserole bowl is in very good condition with no chips but 1 old faint 1 inch in diameter spider and a few impurities in the clay which is normal for this era. Really a lovely & decorativ ...click for details
Wish I had a dozen of these!!! This is an absolutely beautiful antique leaded crystal faceted ball ended or dumbell knife rest with a fluted bar. It is quite old, dating to around 1850-1870. This knife rest has been hand and not machine faceted. The rest measures 4.5 inches long with 1.5 in diameter faceted ball ends. It has only a few tiny facet chips and is really in very good condition for it's age. Knife rests were popularized by the victorians as a way to keep your tablecloth clean duri ...click for details
This is a dainty pair of victorian English hallmarked sterling silver sugar tongs, sugar nips or saccharine tongs with spoon ends. This set of small tongs is hallmarked for Birmingham, England 1900 with the maker's mark JG. Saccharine tongs or small sugar tongs were used for the artificial sweetner that was quite popular in the late victorian period until being banned in 1911 as a menace to health. The tongs are 3 inches long and are in excellent condition. Shipping in the US by USPS priorit ...click for details
This is a wonderful item of victoriana. This is an antique ivory glove stretcher dating 1880-1890s. The glove stretcher measures 8 inches long and has a scissor action pivoting on an internal bone wheel. The action has a tight return and I don't know the mechanics but it works beautifully. The glove stretcher was an essential part of every victorian woman's vanity tolls or gadgets and was used to gently stretch the fingers of the many pairs of kidskin gloves required at the time. This gl ...click for details
This is an antique molded crystal English knife rest made in a 3 part mold with scalloped flower form ends and a swirled barley twist bar measuring 3.25 inches long by 1.25 in diameter ends. This knife rest or knife holder from an estate knife rest collection we recently acquired. The knife rest dates to the 1900-1920s and is in very good ++ condition with 1 tiny shallow chip on one of the ends. Knife rests were a wonderful invention very popular with Victorian homemakers as a way to decorate a ...click for details
This is an old double egg cup measuring 4 inches high made by Mason's of Staffordshire, England in the Vista pattern. It is red transferware ironstone and dates to @1900. The old ones are very difficult to find. It has a lovely floral and pastoral design. It is in very good condition with just one chip on the rim of the larger cup. A great piece. Shipping in the US by USPS priority insured with tracking is $7.60.
