Please note that our valuer will not be here for the next two Friday's and as such there will be no valuation days. Friday the 15th of April is Good Friday, so we will be closed for the day & the following Friday he will be on holiday. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience…
Our auctioneer, Ryan, can often be heard lamenting the fact that older furniture just does not sell as well as it used to. We get why, and the reasons are myriad from smaller houses, tastes have changed and it just isn't fashionable (not necessarily the same thing, at least not in the auction world). And…
500 BCE philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus coined the phrase "The only constant in life is change", which in the antiques market is particularly applicable to furniture. Sadly, gone are the days of the grand mansions with their multiple salons and sitting rooms, and a dozen or more bedrooms, each half the size of a football pitch. All…
Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (1876 - 1955) was a British furniture maker, based in Kilburn, North Yorkshire. Thompson's trademark was a carved mouse, which appears on every piece he made from 1919 onward, hence the moniker "Mouseman". The story surrounding the iconic trademark, as told by Robert Thompson himself, was that one of his craftsmen remarked…
