Your Best Reference for Antique Marks

Including pottery marks, porcelain marks and everything antique or collectable.

Over 10,000 antique marks and trademarks with superb quality images to illustrate examples of antique manufacturers products.

The antique marks site is your easy to use online reference for everything antique.

With detailed information on all kinds of antique china, pottery marks, porcelain marks, antiques and collectables.

Antique Marks includes antique terms, a full antiques glossary and detailed history on well known companies and artist biographies.

As well as pottery & porcelain companies and information on caring for antique rugs, carpets, silver and glass.

But best of all ... Its all FREE, and at your fingertips 24/7.

The site includes graphic illustrations of over 100 manufacturers products to help identify & date your pieces and over 10,000 makers marks and a full antiques glossary with a full, easy to use search facility.

antique-marks.com is ideal for the collector to check or verify attributions listed in online auction sales

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Poole Pottery and Poole Pottery Marks

Collecting Poole Pottery and Poole Pottery marks from 1873 as Carter and Co and marks of the twentieth century. Poole Pottery produce decorative and ornamental pottery that has become very collectible

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Antique Marks - Including Pottery Marks and Porcelain Marks

The Antique marks reference. A complete guide to antique china, terms, antique periods, styles, pottery marks, porcelain marks, trademarks and manufacturers. Including Company histories for Doulton Worcester Meissen Wedgwood Troika and artists marks

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Its Easy To Invest in Silver, Collect Junk Silver Coins ...

spacer Sterling Silver has long been a popular commodity to trade and collect, and many of today's investors look to silver as a way to protect the wealth they have accunulated.

Junk silver coins are everyday coins that have value in their silver content, and most older everyday US coins are 90% silver. Collecting and profiting from them is easier than you think ...

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Antique Minton China Porcelain and Thomas Minton

Collecting Antique Minton China and Porcelain. Thomas Minton led the way in developing antique china, producing a large range of styles including pate sur pate, majolica and parian ware

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Art Deco Artists and Art Deco Designers

Art Deco Artists - A reference of artists and architectural and decorative-arts designers that typify the art deco style

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Is Noritake China A Worthwhile Addition to Your Porcelain Collection?

spacer Japanese porcelain has always been good quality and has always been popular with porcelain collectors.

Noritake china is probably the lesser cousin to the more desireable Kakiemon, Satsuma, Kutani and Imari wares. However we find it appeals to oriental porcelain collectors and that there is a good market for it.

Deciding whether it's worth adding to your porcelain collection means considering three things; rarity, the aesthetic appeal and the potential investment value. Before you do that you need to understand the Noritake marks and history ...

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Doulton Collector, Buyer or eBay Seller? Check Your Doulton Marks here ...

spacer In 1991, Royal Doulton released its first Lady Figure of the Year. Previous to that Doulton released seriesware, stoneware and art wares including flambe figures & vases, Brangwyn wares with their own base mark and Titania wares produced from 1916 to 1933.

So, as a Doulton antiques collector, buyer or even an ebay seller, how do you check what you have or what you're interested in? Here's how ...

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Antique Collectables Gallery - The Definitive Guide to a Real Antique Collection

A look at real antique collectables and the antique manufacturers markings as they are stamped painted or impressed on an antique collection. Helping you learn more about how the maker marked their pieces and where and what to look out for

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The Antiques Road Show ... Can You Help?

spacer In the antiques road show we list antique finds, rare antique discoveries, collectibles and heirlooms that other antique collectors have submitted.

Antiques and collectables our visitors have inherited or discovered but identification or attribution has proven to be a little more difficult than usual.

Other collectors have added comments or opinions and offered information sources in an effort to assist the collector or point them in the right direction. If you are a knowledgeable antiques collector or just know a lot about antiques, would you be kind enough to help other enthusiasts?

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Genuine Wedgwood? Know Your Wedgwood Marks.

spacer The antique Wedgwood Collector is faced with many imitators and unscrupulous rival manufacturers. Who either traded on a relationship to the Wedgwood family or left their products unmarked so that the buyer might attribute their work to the Wedgwood potteries.

Luckily Josiah Wedgwood was the first potter of note to mark his wares with his own name, and while early antique Wedgwood pieces may be unmarked, the presence of the correct Wedgwood mark is a good indication that the piece is genuine ...

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A great source for antique collectors ...

Antique collectors, buyers and sellers can now access a wealth of information.

Whether they're looking for pottery marks, porcelain marks, antique china marks or antique makers, it's all right here at their fingertips.

The information can be accessed while they are creating their item description and a link to the relevant section can be provided to the potential buyer; just to re-assure your customer that the antique china you are selling is exactly what you say it is.

The antique marks website is ideal for any collector, buyer or seller who needs to research pottery marks, porcelain marks or other antique collector essentials, and who wants to provide their potential customer with as much information as possible; to allow them to make an educated and informed decision.

It is invaluable to the seller who is unsure of antique china maker or the date of a piece of porcelain or where to research the origins of quality antique pottery, and it can also help prevent you selling antiques for low, low prices.
No matter what antiques you buy, sell or collect ...

Royal Doulton or Royal Worcester figures, antique pottery vases, antique china, majolica, studio pottery, art deco, art nouveau, antique carpets, silver, rare coins or any other range of antique items;

Antique marks with its antiques glossary and fully illustrated pottery and porcelain marks sections can help make sure you know what antiques you are buying and sometime more importantly, also what antiques you are selling.


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