flog it

[eleanor2]

if flog it came to your town.what one thing would you take to show them.if it was a family hierloom could you sell it. i have nothing of value . i wouldn't sell my teapots and clock which are passed from parents.i would take my lead/pewter embossed spoon. i bought it at a market/carboot thing in majorca.i would love to know what it is.

[Katelb]

Hi eleanor,I think I would take a threelegged carved chair which has a a narrow high back and which my grandmother carved when she was a girl of 17,it is a strange little item and I remember it as a child being below the shelf the telephone was on.I would never sell it,but I would be interested to see what was said about it!

[eleanor2]

did you see that week they were showing you carved wood items. a famous carpenter who carved a little mouse on all his pieces.it made each piece of furniture worth a lot more. your chair sounds interesting kate.its the things that are different and not very common to find that catch their attention isn't it.

[eleanor2]

or antiques roadshow then. which would tempt you most.out of all the things you'v got what is the one thing you'd leave to your nearest and dearest. take my hubby he says often.if anything happens to me dont sell my tools.i want you share them out with my grandsons.what a job that would be .he has tools hidden away everywhere.

[sunflower]

I would'nt sell anything nowadays as I have learnt my lesson and flogged things that I would love to have back. Mind you,,,,we did flog alot of stuff and raised enough money for hospital fees for my dear African friend, who was a deaconess to help her conceive a baby. So I certainly do'nt regret that. In African culture(the part she comes from) it is important for a married woman to have had a child or the woman is considered to be just a child herself and is not listened to by other women. Our loft is full of stuff and hubby's garage full of ancient tools which will fetch quite a bit when we are gone. So we see it as a nice legacy for the children. I have labelled alot of our stuff and written a potted history about each item, so that the children will have information about the relatives from the past.

[franbee]

We went to the Antiques Roadshow when it came to our town. I've still got the badge 'I've queued at the Antiques Roadshow' and queue we did. We took a few things, they were assessed whilst we were in the queue, because the tables were busy, but weren't worth a great deal, but you could stay as long as you liked and it was a great day.
Eleanor, we have visited 'The Mouseman' workshops in Yorkshire, I'll get the address from OH, you could have a day out. Fran.

[SheepyJames]

I would take a strange vase that hubbie brought home from a sale in a box of odds. It has 3 figures dressed in victorian clothes on it, a lady with a goat's head, one with a cricket's head, and a gent with a horse's head. It sits on my kitchen windowsill and it fascinates me. I would love to know what it is and the significance of the figures.

[eleanor2]

is that what they call him.the furniture he made was good old english craftmanship .yes fran if you can post the address please. sheepy your statue sounds very odd.thats probably what makes it fascinating. hey have any of you out there got a clarice cliff they always do well don't they. is it troyska cornwall pottery them square things they do well.i had some doulton ladies but our house got broken into years back.once a neighbour chased the teenagers and they dropped a figure in the grass unharmed. a while later we got broken into again and the remaining figure got pinched again.a family with a drug taking son from up another street i think.when he moved no more robberies.anyway the english made doulton figures will be collectables in the future.cus all royal doulton as moved abroad .so sad....