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Easy but thoughtful Gift-buying

26 Feb

Knowing what someone likes makes finding a gift much easier. What do they wear, surround themselves with or talk about? What do they like? Perhaps they have a sense of humour..? Thoughtfulness in the ...

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Frescos. Classicism Preserved

26 Feb

The Raphael Vatican loggia frescos are probably among the most readily recognized today, but fresco wall decoration was not a new idea when the Vatican contracted hundreds of skilled artisans duri...

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Australia. 400 years’ antique maps & prints

25 Feb

Since closing our Milton gallery at Camford Square at the end of 2011, Derek and I have been surprisingly busy - mainly with maps, prints and books being bought from our website. We also catch up...

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Three Important Mapmakers

25 Feb

In Northern Europe in 1472 the first woodblock map was published by inking a raised type-face that had been created by carving away from the image to be printed. In Italy a different process was soon ...

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Fascinating Antique Maps

25 Feb

ANTIQUE MAPS from 100 to 400 years old... We have a great selection of maps and charts of the world - of most countries from most centuries... showing earlier beliefs of land formations, charting...

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Porcelain as Fine Art

25 Feb

A fine piece of Sevres porcelain fetched almost a million dollars at the end of 2011, when it was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is such a huge amount of money for one item that the ma...

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Rare French hand-coloured fashion stencils

25 Feb

Over the centuries Paris has established itself as the location of the finest fashion houses. Haute couture has been appreciated worldwide, and talented artists were employed in France to introduc...

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Strange, beautiful Australian botany

25 Feb

Early exploration revealed more than new countries. Wildlife from the "other end of the world" included animal shapes that were quite different from any seen in Europe, and a unique and strange...

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Perouse: L’Astrolabe & La Boussole

25 Feb

During the second half of the 18th century, a number of major expeditions to the Pacific by French and British explorers revealed previously unknown population settlements and their different customs....

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French Cartography – simply decorative

25 Feb

As with the counties of England, there is also a wide choice of decorative antique maps of the different counties or départements of France. The French are unsurpassed in their artistic inclination...