Category: Antiques

Monthly Dorset antiques column by Craig Wharton and Philip Traves of Sherborne Antiques Market. With expert insider tips, advice and know-how on Dorset Antiques.

How to buy and sell antiques, what to look for when collecting antiques. What are the best antiques to collect, valuing antiques, is my antique worth anything, is my object an antique.

Plus going to an auction the do’s the don’t’s, how to buy at an auction, how to sell at an auction, auction etiquette, where are the best dorset auctions. From small antiques like vintage coins to large antique furniture and much more, all done with a sense of fun and style. Just as you would expect from any self respecting Dorset antiques expert.

Antiques

A Sherborne stop for Antiques Road Trip

Catherine Southon was the expert filming a shopping trip in Sherborne Antiques Market – Terry Bennett spoke to owner Craig Wharton Probably everyone has seen...

Editorial team - 15 July 2023

Antiques

Rescuing 40,000 animals, TV’s Salvage Hunter in Sherborne, and a lack of listening in the food industry

Three fascinating interviews this week – Jenny chatted to Kevan Hidges of ferne Animal Sanctuary about it's fascinating and inspiring history and work. Terry...

Laura - 30 June 2023

Antiques

Time to start a royal collection

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee might just be the perfect time to start collecting your own royal commemoration antiques, say experts Craig Wharton and Philip...

Editorial team - 21 June 2022

Antiques

Single buyer takes home ex-family heirlooms in four day £1m auction

A single determined bidder ensured that a group of lots relating to Combe Sydenham, the historic manor in Somerset, all ended up ‘back where...

Editorial team - 29 May 2022

Antiques

Ugly shelf fillers, or undervalued, beautiful and useful?

Antique and vintage cut glass has a place in every home, and should never be ‘kept for best’ argue antique experts Craig Wharton and...

Editorial team - 26 April 2022

Antiques

Brown (furniture) is the new green!

In the first of their new column, antique experts Craig Wharton and Philip Traves share why we all need to love back-in-fashion brown furniture. When...

Editorial team - 9 March 2022

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Housing in North Dorset – how to do it better

Editorial team - 4 December 20230

With elections looming, North Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy challenges unsustainable, unaffordable local housing strategies Sadly, we and others were unable to stop the North Dorset...