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December 8, 2022

Christmas Gift Guide

Antique Christmas Gift Guide Christmas is a time for giving. Give a gift with with history attached! A special gift the may have seen 50 Christmas’s and will see 50 more. Think unique think Antique. Our gift guide will help you think outside the box. Will help not adding to the environmental foot print by reuse, purposed and recycle treasure which have been around for 50,60 even 100 years. Think unique, think Antique.... 1.The Bar Tender Do you have someone who takes charge of the drinks at events or family gatherings? Someone with their own bar, drinks trolley or tiki...

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October 12, 2022

Antique Alley counting down the Five most popular forms of collectable Art Glass

Antique Alley counting down the Five most popular forms of collectable Art Glass. Depression GlassDepression glass was produced during the Great Depression in the USA. It was a way to try to stimulate the economy. For example when you went to the movies or brought a car you were given some depression glass to collect. It was not the highest quality glass produced because it was made fast and cheaply. So it tended to have bubbles and physical seams. They were made in bright colors pink green and Amber were the most common. The more collectible colors are yellow (fairy) blue (aqua)...

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October 2, 2022

How do you like your tea?

How do you like your tea? Strong with sugar, milky and weak? Porcelain or bone china are the preferred vessel to drink tea out of but did you know the history of tea and all the tea components. Tea sets or tea services are a collection of cups saucers and plates, milk and sugar bowl, jugs, cake plates, spoons and tea caddies. These can all be matching or mismatch depending on your tastes. Tea originated in China in the Han Dynasty (206–220 BC) Tea was just drunk as an elixir rather than a daily drink. The teapot was developed in the...

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September 21, 2022

The Blue Willow Love Story

A brief background on Blue Willow plates. In the 15th century Chinese manufactures started making China to export to Europe this was extended to the Americas in the 1800s. In 1780 Thomas Turner was the first to produce a copper engraving of the blue Willow pattern and Spode was the first mass producer of this blue and white China in 1790. Blue Willow has an oriental theme with either a Pergola or Tea house, a bridge, three people, a Willow tree, two birds at flight and lattice border. The poem behind the Blue Willow plates “lovers story” “Whatever food you...

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September 15, 2022