Antiques: Finding the Missing Link ; Is Your Favourite Dinner Service Missing a Piece? Christopher Proudlove Reveals How You Can Go About Finding It
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JUDGING by the plaintive note of a recent e-mail, one reader's New Year celebrations seemed to be in jeopardy even before December was out. She wrote: "I wonder if you can help me. As long as I can remember, we have been using a blue and white dinner service, which is now missing many bits.
"Tonight, I broke a dinner plate and I'm trying to get a replacement. I've tried searching the internet with not much joy. Can you tell me more about my dinner service and how I can go about replacing the missing pieces?"See the full content of this document
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Antiques: Finding the Missing Link ; Is Your Favourite Dinner Service Missing a Piece? Christopher Proudlove Reveals How You Can Go About Finding It
Thee-mail goes on to give exhaustive details about the maker, the pattern, the back stamp and the trademarks, from which it is relatively straightforward to date the dinner service to around 1910. That's the easy part.
I know collectors who have spent a lifetime searching out a particular patter...See the full content of this document
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