Antiques and Fine Art Section.

[code1]

We collect English and Irish fine art and have a few antiques.

Would anyone be interested in discussing their antques and art on-line at answer bank ?.

[Theland1]

I've got three ducks on the wall if you want to talk about them.

[code1]

Only if their Spode or Royal Daulton Sir !.

Duck's I believe were common in council houses in the 1950's and 1960's, poor people had them to remind them of the country.

I spent my childhood shooting the real thing on my fathers farm.

[Mr Veritas]

Royal DOULTON, please get your spelling correct,or we will never get the section that you request?

[code1]

Sir, my upmost apology !...thank-you sincerely for your appeasement.

I was thinking about starting a section for Lexicographers.

Tally Ho !

[code1]

Any ideas on this piece ? - Auction Valuation.

Plate :Dimensions: 25cm. Approx.
Marks: 'British Tambourine'
Maker: Unknown. Probably John and William Ridgway.
Date: c. 1830

I purchased it for �125.00 UKP.

[code1]

I have just picked up a lovely early 1900's Grandfather Clock in Walnut.
Just checking the movement.
Will keep you all posted.

Many Thanks

[shaneystar2]

You seem to have had a funny sort of movement from Bravo 1 to code 1 ..what can we expect next ....Oscar 2 ? Foxtrot 3 ? Or how about Tango,Romeo, Oscar ,Lima ,Lima ?

[Mr Veritas]

Well code 1,
The mainspring of AB is working well,but you seem to be winding it up sufficiently too!

[code1]

Thank-you for your informative replies.

[code1]

The clock details :

An outstanding '8-day' arched brass dial walnut veneered Longcase clock. The dial with chapter ring and spendrels, seconds and calendar features & finely matted centre. The 5 pillar movement of outstanding quality with 'dead-beat' escapement, the going side running on a 3lb weight only! The cabinet of typical London design but made using fine figured walnut veneers and outstanding inlays of various woods.

What a cracker !

[raysparx1]

I also dabble in the arts and have a fine collection of Kyffin willams and william selwyns works, who is your favorite modern british artist code1? I also love photographic art, dave newbould being my favourite, do you know I also have arather beautiful georgian side table, but the man who came to value it said yes it is georgian, it is georgeanmildred, can you tell me when this period was?

[raysparx1]

yee knobby, just caught an old trout, hows you diddlin?

[code1]

Thank-you kindly for your replies.

As for Kyffin Williams yes I know him quite well Sir.

For those interested in the artist Kyffin Williams he was born on Anglesey in 1918 and was advised by his doctor to take up art due to ill health. Between 1941 and 1944 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and held the post of Senior Art Master at Highgate School, London from 1944 to 1973. In 1968 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh in Patagonia. Williams held his first solo exhibition at P. & D. Colnaghi, London, in 1949 and subsequent solo exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries, London, Glynn Vivian Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea, Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff and the Tegfryn Gallery, Menai Bridge. Williams exhibits his work regularly at the Thackeray Gallery, London and the Albany Gallery, Cardiff. In 1987 a retrospective exhibition toured from the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff to the Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, and in 1993 a portraits retrospective was held at Oriel Ynys Mon in Williams' native Llangefni. Sir Kyffin Williams lives in Anglesey and continues to exhibit work widely. He has a permanent exhibition at Oriel Ynys M�n, Anglesey. He was President of the Royal Cambrian Academy from 1969 to 1976, and again from 1992. He is also a member of the Royal Academy and an Honorary Fellow of University College, Swansea (1989), University College, Bangor (1991) and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1992). In 1991 Williams received the Medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.

One of my favourite British artists is Ford Maddox Brown.

[code1]

For those interested in William Selwyn he was born in Caernarfon in 1933. In 1954, after two years completing National Service in the Royal Artillery, he studied at Bangor Normal College until 1956. He subsequently taught at Maesincla Junior School and at Syr Hugh Owen School until his retirement in 1990.

His art is centred on the landscape of Gwynedd, its farm workers and fishermen. He is a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and a winner of the 11th Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition in 1988, with his water colour of Llanberis Pass. Welsh Artist of the Year in 2001 and winner of Spirit of Wales 2003.

William Selwyn's work has been purchased by Gwynedd Council and Anglesey County Council , by the University of Bangor, the Arts Council of Wales,the National Library of Wales, the University of Bath and is to be found in many private collections at home and abroad.

I hope you found this as interesting as I did...

Many thanks to all your kind and interesting replies.

[code1]

Thank-you very much to our friends in lovely Wales.

[raysparx1]

Sorry to tell you code1 but Kyffin died last year, I also knew him but he never mentioned you,how strange. :-)