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.

Antique Furniture Article

Antique Chairs

An Antique Chair happens to be one of the most common items in the antique furniture world. In almost all styles of chairs, the distinctive feature which determines the style is the form of the back. In chairs of the Chippendale style, the distinctive feature is the form of the top rail. The back of the antique chair may be splat of various degrees of intricacy, or ladder-back. The leg may be cabriole with claw-and-ball foot; or chamfered and molded square leg or the heavy, straight, grooved leg known as Marlborough.

Whereas the Hepplewhite antique furniture chair had a curved back, the Sheraton style antique furniture chair had a square or rectangular back with its crossbar just above the seat. The back, itself, showed either a central splat or a number of banisters of various sizes and shapes. Legs were tapered or turned and reeded.

The designs within the backs of the shield back antique furniture chairs are of two general types; a. splat, not too unlike the splats in Chippendale style chairs; b. a series of three, four, or five uprights, called banisters or bars, which extend from the bottom of the back upward to the top. There are variations from these two general styles.

Thus antique furniture chairs can be categorized by various parameters and they are priceless in the world of antiques & collectibles.

Made from the early-18thC onwards by wood "I turners or 'bodgers' setting up temporary workshops in woodland areas. Although made in many parts of the country - hence enormous I regional differences in detail - High Wycombe ill Buckinghamshire became, and has remained, the entre of the industry. Since the late-19thC, Windsors and their variants have been mass produced there by machine...

Chippendale Chairs
ANTIQUE CHIPPENDALE CHAIRS - 1750 - 1780

Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and furniture Cabinet Maker's Director, published in three editions (1754,1755 and 1762) had a historic influence on mid-18thC antique furniture chair design. In it, Chippendale applied popular rococo and Gothic design motif to already fashionable shapes for both grand and simple household furniture. Few designs were copied precisely. Chair makers at all levels London, provincial and country - adapted and modified their designs to suit their own capabilities to their clients' tastes and pockets...

Country Ladder & Spindle Back Chairs
ANTIQUE COUNTRY LADDER AND SPINDLE BACK CHAIRS - 1700 - 1939

COUNTRY LADDER 1700-1939
Traditional ladder-back, spindle and other turned chairs were made in all parts of Britain throughout the 18th and 19thC. Although regional variations exist in the shape of turnings and so on most follow the same basic patterns. Some arts and crafts designers were influenced by the tradition and from the 1860s onwards the style appeared in more sophisticated interiors than previously. Between the wars many authentic reproductions were made of both spindle. and ladder backs; if well worn these are difficult to identify and many are sold with an earlier date...

Regency Chairs
ANTIQUE REGENCY FURNITURE CHAIRS - 1800 - 1840

Usually very elegant antique chairs, some based on previous Sheraton types, but many inspired by Ancient Greek klismos chairs, with their distinctive sabre legs. Nelson's naval victories resulted in the inclusion of many naval emblems in furniture design after 1803, and in chairs is apparent in back supports carved as twisted rope. This has earned all sabre-leg chairs of Regency date the popular name' 'Trafalgars' though correctly this only refers to those with rope designs.

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