How does your antique house clearance service work?

Here are four common scenarios:

1 If the contents of the house to be cleared have no antiques or collectables with resale value, then we suggest you use a reputable, licensed & insured house clearance company like Abacus.

2 Some of the house clearance contents may have resale value. Common items with resale value include antiques, precious metals, jewellery, collectables and artwork. We'll give you an allowance for these and deduct it against the cost of the clearance.

3 If the majority of your house clearance items are valuable and this value exceeds the clearance costs, we’ll give you the difference (either in cash or cheque).

4 And finally, where the contents of your property have been valued for probate, this value can also be deducted from the cost of your house clearance. No matter which service you need, we can help.

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We will buy vintage clothing, costume jewellery, antique furniture, 50s 60s 70s furniture, in fact we will buy anything antique or collectable we can sell.

We will happily look through and pick out antiques & collectables from various locations including cluttered houses, garages, lofts, or basements, even if it takes us all day. We do not mind getting dirty.

Not sure what you have? Then call us! You will be surprised at what we actually do buy. Our staff are very knowledgeable and will pick out items you would have never guessed were otherwise saleable.

Chester Antique House Clearance Areas We Cover: Blacon, Chester, Higher Ferry, Capenhurst, Backford Elton, Hoole, Ince, Mickle Trafford, Moston Boughton, Huntington, Mouldsworth, Tarvin, Tattenhall, Farndon, Handbridge, Lache, Pulford, Penyffordd, Broughton, Saltney, Connah's Quay, Shotton, Queensferry, Sealand, Sandycroft, Dobshill, Ewloe. And All Other Areas Of Chester.

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How To Collect Antique American Art Pottery

Antique American art pottery has remained a hot collectible for over 25 years. These decorative antique ceramics are available in all styles and price ranges, offering not only an attractive element to add to one’s abode but also a glimpse into America’s recent past.

Antique Art pottery was produced across America from about 1880 to about 1920, the work of nearly 200 makers ranging in size from huge factories to one guy in a basement with a bucket of mud.

One, more Victorian in its approach, treated the clay body of the pot as though it were a canvas on which to paint. The potteries of the Ohio Valley, such as Cincinnati’s Rookwood, or nearby Zanesville’s Roseville and Weller Potteries, were purveyors of wares created in this style. The other method, typified by the Grueby Pottery of Boston, was more in keeping with the tenets of the Arts & Crafts Movement, and sculpted or tooled a more stylized, organic decoration into the surface of the pot, unifying the vessel and the design into a single expression.

Nichols founded the now famous Rookwood Pottery in 1880, where this Victorian-style flourished. Rookwood quickly evolved into America’s premier, hand-decorated factory-produced antique art pottery, maturing as it moved through the subsequent styles of Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, and Moderne before closing its doors in 1965.

The Grueby Pottery (1896-1917) was a more short-lived operation—riding the rise and fall of the Arts & Crafts Movement—however their antique artware remains the truest expression of this important era in American design. Considered the perfect complement to fine Period furniture by leading designer Gustav Stickley, these organic masterpieces were hand thrown, individually decorated, and covered with rich, vegetal matte glazes.

William Grueby’s antique pottery was a fraction of the size of the Rookwood operation, and while some division of labor remained and the product did not meet the Arts & Crafts ideal of “one person, one pot” as George Ohr and W. J. Walley had done, by any standard, it was a more intimate affair, with most of the modeling and glazing produced by a small staff of artists.

These two examples illustrate the disparities that defined and compelled the field of American decorative ceramics. Rookwood was almost entirely molded ware, while Grueby’s hollow ware (as opposed to their art tile) was always hand thrown.

Determining how much to pay remains an issue because, unlike the other elements of collecting, this is more of a moving target. Like any other market, prices are subject to change at any time and those changes are usually upward. Other variables that come into play include where you find it, what condition it’s in, and how beautiful/successful it’s deemed to be. A product’s “freshness,” or how exposed to the market it is, also counts.

Damage affects the value of a piece in different ways, depending upon the type and extent of the flaw and the mindset of the buyer of a particular sort of ware. For example, Rookwood’s antique ceramic is almost photorealist in its decorative approach. An iris blossom should look, well, like an iris blossom. Rookwood antique collectors have set, and maintained, the standard for the importance of perfection. Even the slightest damage, such as a small chip of drill hole through the base, will reduce a piece’s value by as much as 50 percent.

Your interests are best served if your enjoyment of antique art pottery includes the people you meet and the history that spawned the art form, in addition to the material itself.

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