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Derbyshire Antiques & Collectibles – Royal Mint Collectors’ Coins

July 24, 2018 VickyP

One of the tasks I seem to spend vast quantities of time on when I am working at Bamfords is cataloguing collections of coins. Much of what comes in is base metal and well used, and has little value; some is in various purities of silver and needs sorting. If circulated, everything not a rarity is estimated at […]

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Derbyshire Antiques & Collectibles – Beswick Pottery Figures

June 27, 2018 VickyP

John Beswick Ltd, formerly J. W. Beswick, was a pottery manufacturer, founded in 1892 by James Wright Beswick and his sons John and Gilbert, in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. The firm survived until in 1969 when it was sold to Doulton & Co. Ltd. They closed the factory in 2002 and the brand name John Beswick was sold on in 2004 […]

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Derbyshire Antiques & Collectibles – Vintage Telephones

June 5, 2018 VickyP

Those of us over a certain age will know that, until 1984, when the GPO (Post office telephones) monopoly was broken up, one did not actually own one’s telephone, but rented it from the GPO along with associated installations. Thus there was very little choice over the type of telephone one could have. Collecting these […]

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Derbyshire Antiques & Collectibles : Collectible UK Comics

April 3, 2018 VickyP

I can still recall, aged five or six, being taken out by my nanny to catch a train for a visit to the Science Museum at London – a favourite destination of mine at that age. On the way to our suburban station was a newsagent’s shop, with current titles and the day’s papers displayed […]

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Derbyshire Antiques & Collectibles – Royal Commemorative Mugs

February 1, 2018 VickyP

Most commemorative objects, from coins to china plates, tend to cost a lot more to buy than you get back for re-sale, as the plethora of relatively modern specimens which come up for sale in Bamford’s general sales testify. Today you can expect to pay in the region of £10 or more for a 1953 […]

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Derbyshire Antiques – Dinky Toy Aircraft

January 4, 2018 VickyP

Last month I penned a few lines about the enduring and collectible die cast model motor vehicles produced by Meccano Limited under the Dinky imprimatur. This I threatened to follow up with an article about the die cast model aircraft the firm also made from the 1930s. I was given my first example as a […]