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Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Philip Serrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781529396492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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When Philip Serrell gave up teaching to become a professional auctioneer, he thought he was embarking on a sensible and safe career... a quiet life in the country with no surprises. How wrong he was. In What Am I Bid? he tells of life after the events he described in his previous memoirs, An Auctioneer's Lot and Sold to the Man with the Tin Leg, to bring his story up to date. From dodgy cars to fakes in the saleroom; angry livestock, mangled silverware and tortuous - not to mention muddy - experiences in local markets and farm sales, Philip has been there, done that and got the hoofprints on his suit to prove it.

Author: Ellen Callmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Joan Jones
Publisher: Shire Publications
ISBN: 9780747803041
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Anna Selby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007385986
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This pocket-sized guide to identifying and interpreting metal and ceramic marks has been improved with the addition of the most recent hallmarks, along with details of the new hallmarking system.

Author: William Chaffers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Alaine Apap Bologna
Publisher: Midsea Books
ISBN: 9789990995923
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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This catalogue was compiled to compliment one of Patrimonju's most prestigious exhibitions, Silver of Malta. The nine hundred and ninety-five entries consist of silver items created by Maltese and foreign silversmiths that settled in Malta, ranging from mid 16th Century till the 19th Century. These objets d'art commissioned by the Maltese, the Knights and also by the British residents, became highly collectable items of exceptional craftsmanship of an international standard. The wide variety of exhibits included silver for banqueting and tea tables, the famous oil lamps (lampieri), glove trays (guantieri), salvers (sootocoppe), scent flasks (Balsamini), snuff-boxes, jewelry and several others. Religious silver was also exhibited but restricted to items used in the house or house chapel. The catalogue is forwarded by a synoptic essay on the Influence of European Silver on the Maltese Art of Silversmithing, and includes an exhaustive Glossary and an illustrated section to the Makers' Marks of all the recorded silversmiths producing silver in Malta. Alaine Apap Bologna is an art historian and connoisseur, who specialised in silver and objets d'art at Christie's Geneva becoming the head of the silver and watch departments.

Author: Vic Schuler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870703284
Category : Toby jugs
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: George Cole
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782197775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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This book" "tells the story of George Cole's more than 70 years in the acting profession that began with a walk-on part at the age of 14 in the stage musical "The White Horse Inn "in 1939, and continues today, having included such roles as David Bliss in the radio and television versions of "A Life of Bliss," Flash Harry in the "St. Trinian's "films, and Arthur Daley in television's "Minder." Adopted when he was only 10 days old, George Cole grew up in south London in the 1920s. On the day he left school he saw a newspaper advertisement seeking a small boy to join the cast of "The White Horse Inn "and was selected the following day. A year later, he found himself in the West End play "Cottage to Let," ""playing an impish wartime evacuee. Here he met legendary comic actor Alastair Sim who, with his wife, took him as an evacuee to their country house and coached him in the finer skills of acting. A flurry of films and theater performances in the late 1940s, after his RAF service, culminated in a memorable role as a young Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic 1951 film "Scrooge "alongside Sim. "Henry V," "Cleopatra "(with Elizabeth Taylor), "Don't Forget to Write," "Blott on the Landscape," "Henry Root," and "Dad "are among other titles for which he is well known. But it was in 1979 that he landed the role that would elevate him to international recognition, when he was offered the role of Arthur Daley in Thames Television's new series "Minder," ""alongside Dennis Waterman. In "The World was my Lobster," a title taken from a classic line in a "Minder "episode, George Cole talks candidly, humorously, and sensitively about his adoption, his life, his roles, and many of the people he has worked with throughout his long career.

Author: John Charles Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ducks
Languages : en
Pages :

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