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Before you call any house clearance company Call Foxtons, we will call out to the property at your convenience and pick out all the items we can sell and pay you there and then in cash. You will be surprised at what we will buy.

We will buy vintage clothing, costume jewellry, bric-a-brac, retro furniture, pictures, old watches, coins, gold, silver, china, items from the 50, 60s, 70s, old toys. We will buy anything old or vintage 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.

We guarantee to find items you would never have thought were worth money.

Give us a call even if you think the house clearance items are worthless. You have nothing to loose!

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

Teesside Antique Pre House Clearance Areas We Cover: Wynyard Thorpe Thewles Billingham Norton Bishopton Elton Park House Clearance Hartburn Long Newton Eaglescliffe Yarm House Clearance Kirklevington Maltby Hilton Thornaby Stainton Marton Acklam Stockton Middlesbrough Eston South Bank Ormesby Cargo Fleet Hemlington House Clearance Stainton Thornton Tollesby House Clearance Acklam Middlesbrough Berwick Hills Brambles Farm Coulby Newham Easterside Eston Grangetown House Clearance North Yorkshire Grove Hill Middlesbrough Hemlington Linthorpe Marton Grove Marton Netherfields Normanby Redcar and Cleveland. And All Other Areas Of Teesside.

Antique Trunks and Luggage

A luggage trunk or travelling chest is a large rectangular container for transporting clothing or other personal belongings. They were typically used for long periods of stay away from home, such as travel trips or boarding school. These days trunks are generally used as pieces of decorative storage or display furniture for things like books or military paraphernalia.

Antique trunks date from 1600's - early 1900's. Made with different patterns, details and designs, antique trunks can be of historic significance to many collectors.

Animal hide or leather covered trunks can be traced back to 1600's. They are fastened by lots of small brass tacks. They always feature leather-trimmed edging, dust banding and forged metal carrying handles. These trunks wear quite well over time and have an elegant appearance.

Stagecoach trunks go back from 1840 to 1875. Instead of animal hide covering and leather trim, antique trunks in this period were often made with oil cloth, tooled or inked leather, or paper. Their appearance is accentuated by bigger brass-covered buttons.

From 1870 to 1920, dome top trunks soared in popularity. They came in a variety of sizes and styles. Their most distinctive feature, as the name suggests, is the domed top lid that slopes in both directions. Constructed with a moulding technique called barrel moulding, trunks made during this period always had more details and eye-catching embellishments than their earlier leather and stagecoach counterparts.

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