Driscolls Antiques – Antique Furniture Blog

Quality Victorian Furniture

Driscolls antiques get many quality pieces of antique Victorian furniture for sale in all different woods such as oak and mahogany. The early Victorian furniture was usually constructed with usefulness and comfort in the design as the middle class people with more money to spend was on the rise and so greater demand for furniture to made to meet this demand. Victorian furniture was built differently to many earlier styles as they were more larger in size as more larger homes could fit these pieces. They were more rounded in design and towards the end of the Victorian period had more carving for decoration and had more highly French polished shiny finishes.

The Victorians cabinet makers started using styles from earlier periods like Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan and Rococo but mixing it with their own modern usable designs.

Because of these earlier design copied and adjusted to suit more modern uses this is why there was many new styles like the Gothic Revival and Rococo Revival which was very popular, especially around the 1880s.
Also towards the end of the Victorian period and early Edwardian period antique furniture saw the revival of Chippendale and Hepplewhite designs, especially in tables and chairs.

As Victorian cabinet makers progressed and the demand for furniture was at a height more and more machines were built and used for the construction of furniture. As the traditionalists did not like the way furniture was being made by machines the Arts and Crafts furniture movement arrived. They wanted to move away from the mass produced furniture and construct items using hand built traditional techniques and only using solid woods not veneers. Arts and crafts furniture was very expensive to build and so was not long lived as many people preferred the less expensive pieces but in todays standards the less expensive pieces are quality built with timbers we would only dream to build with.

Check out our website for quality Victorian furniture for sale as above is an overview of the history but we stock lots of these pieces throughout all the Victorian stages and many more beautiful pieces of antique furniture.

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Global Logistics Strikes Again

I have previously written blogs to warn antique dealers about scams by a company called Global Freight Logistics. If you get any emails about buying antiques or antique furniture and it mentions Global Freight Logistics, discard the email as it is a scam. The newest version of the scam involves a fake PayPal account. Unfortunately an antiques dealer was conned out of £1200 by this scam.

The dealer who was scammed received an order from a client by the name of Mary Rolland and she wanted the antiques packed and shipped to her so called address in Japan using the shipping company Global Freight Logistics. Mary Rolland insisted paying for the antiques via PayPal and when the antiques dealer received an email from PayPal, confirming that payment had been cleared, he released the goods for shipment.

Unfortunately the pay pal email was a fake email therefore no money was sent into his account but by the time he had discovered this, the antiques had been collected and were untraceable as the shipping company does not exist.

Please anyone who gets emails wanting to use their own shipping company always check out the details first as these con men are becoming very clever and I would hate for them to get away with coning you out of your antiques.

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Antique Furniture Making Your Home Look Beautiful

Many different people from all ages collect quality antique furniture but not just as a hobby but also as usable pieces of furniture for their home. It may sound like an expensive habit but it can be much more reasonable than you think when you look at the price of modern newly built furniture. A quality piece of classic antique furniture not only will add to the ambience of your home but also offers a very useable solid piece of furniture. It will make your room in your home look sophisticated but also offers something new furniture cannot offer and that is character. If you are interested in collecting or buying antique furniture then Driscolls Antiques are one of the leading online antique dealers. We have a large variety of antique furniture to suit all budgets all in various designs, shapes and sizes from antique bookcases to wardrobes, tables and chairs. We only deal in quality antique furniture but at affordable prices.

We can offer advice on what type of pieces you want to buy as there are a few things to bare in mind before purchasing. Firstly you should know all our antique furniture is genuine not reproduction. We are reputable LAPADA antique dealers who are well recognized in the field of selling antiques. Our antique items we sell are in the original form and we sympathetically clean and restore. We try to describe any damage in the furniture.

Antique furniture is available for every part of your home and the trend of buying antique furniture was always been there but in recent times the trend is increasing very fast. The good thing about our website is we display all our antique furniture for sale, offer pieces for every room in your home and update our website daily.

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Pretty Antique Furniture

antique furniture comes in lots of various styles usually because of the fashion of the period they were built in. Certain periods did produce some very pretty pieces of antique furniture and we have some fine examples currently in stock. Usually these pieces are from the mid to late Victorian period and are usually smaller daintier pieces.

A fine example is our Victorian antique canterbury with the most delicate and beautiful fretwork carving and turnings. It is a superb quality piece as it has mahogany linings, a frieze drawer with beautiful turned handles and 4 elegantly turned legs with castors.

From the same period we have an elegant pair of walnut corner chairs with pretty carved backs and scrolled shaped arms. the elegant antique chairs have pierced back splats and beautiful turned upright supports. These are an elegant pair that would sit in any room in your home.

Another unusual and pretty piece for your home could be this Victorian etagere with three shaped shelves with very elegant boulle marquetry and a brass pierced gallery with brass finials. This pretty antique etagere stands on elegant cabriole legs with ornate brass mounts and has beautiful brass and tortoise shell inlay.

Finally a larger pretty piece is our Victorian antique duchess dressing table with tilting mirror and elegant scrolled carved upright supports. It has elegant small jewellery drawers with pull handles and it stands on beautiful turned column supports.

It is a very pretty piece of antique furniture for your bedroom or dressing room.

We always have beautiful pretty pieces of antique furniture for sale on our antiques website or in our antique furniture warehouse for you to view.

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We have just been delivering this weekend and here are some comments that have come through so far.

Hello James
Just a quick email to let you know that our sideboard and bookcase arrived safe and sound this morning.  We’re absolutely delighted with both pieces, they’re lovely thank you.
We’ll be sure to check your website regularly in the future.
Thanks again.
This was for an antique sideboard and antique bookcase to London

Hi,
Just a quick note to say thank you for your excellent service. I am very pleased with the beautiful bookcase and with all of your help.
Many Thanks

This was for an antique bookcase to London

Beautiful antique wardrobe, delivered within the promised 2 hour time slot!

This was for an antique wardrobe to Bristol

Very friendly people to deal with. We are very pleased with our wardrobe.

This was for an antique wardrobe to Kent

Quick delivery. Arrived safe and sound

This was for an antique bureau to Sussex

Lovely piece of furniture, delivered as arranged, good friendly service. Thanks.

This was for an antique bookcase to Hereford

We would always welcome any comments after delivery and we always try to deliver our antique furniture using trusted two man delivery team within a two week time scale. We always give you a 2-3 hour time slot so you are not waiting in all day. Our driver is usually very prompt so we aim to be with you on the earlier time we give you and all our goods are fully insured in transit. Please ask us if you have any queries on delivery as we try to be as obliging as possible and we ensure your antique furniture arrives safely into your home.

coming soon a beautiful rosewood Canterbury.

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Antique furniture, the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day

This year we have had several customers who have purchased a piece of antique furniture from us for Valentine’s Day. This is becoming more and more common for birthdays and Christmas as well. We put this down to the recession as people are now thinking about what they spend their hard earned money on, and what better than a piece of antique furniture. antique furniture is reasonable to buy, is basically recycled furniture so is good for the environment and is a useful piece of furniture. What more it will stay with you for years to come so it can be looked at and admired for many, many years. When it is passed down to your children you can say ‘this was from your father or mother who bought it for me one valentine‘

So next time you are looking for a birthday, Christmas or valentines gift think outside the box and look at buying antique furniture and look at our website as we have lots of beautiful pieces available.

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Sarcophagus shape on antique furniture

The sarcophagus shape can often be seen on antique furniture especially in the late Georgian and regency periods. The best way to describe a sarcophagus shape is a rectangular coffin shaped box.

The Sarcophagus shape is often seen on box lids like on this antique Regency mahogany cellaret with moulded top and 4 beautifully turned feet with brass castors.

look at the top of this unusual antique Regency teapoy with shaped lid and stands on a beautifully shaped pedestal with quadriform base and turned feet with brass castors.

This shape is also very often seen on nice quality tea caddies like this rosewood Regency caddy with domed sarcophagus shape and 4 beautifully turned feet. The interior has fitted lids and mixing bowl.

We always have beautiful pieces of antique furniture for sale on our website and very often in the sarcophagus shape so check for our latest pieces for sale.

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Antique tables for all forms of dining

Driscolls antiques stock all different forms of antique dining tables to suite all needs. We have rustic country tables to very fine dining room tables in lots of different sizes.

For a more formal dining room we would recommend our antique mahogany pedestal dining table from the late Edwardian era with 2 D shaped end tables that when not in use can be used as console tables. There is a central leaf that when in use is held firmly using brass clips. This style of antique table has 2 beautiful turned pedestals with splayed legs and brass castors. This is the ideal table for formal dining.

For more of a rustic farmhouse look we have a Victorian antique pine farmhouse table with a long rustic pine top above four painted legs. It is the ideal table for a country home and if you are looking for the shabby shic look.

If you want something in between we have walnut antique Victorian dining table with 4 chunky, turned legs and is a very sturdy table but has a very nice finish would suite both farmhouse or formal. it is a very nice antique table and we have lots more on our antique furniture website so check our tables under the antique dining table section.

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Warning to all antique and antique furniture dealers. We always get lots of spoof emails but we have decided to start publishing them onto our blog to pre warn other antique dealers just in case they fall foul to these con men.

we received an email firstly saying -

My name is Bruce, i am  contacting you on behalf of Honi Well Stores. We are interested in purchasing  some items from your store and we believe you accept payment  via Paypal or Credit  Card . Please let me know if you can  assist me with the order.  Your quick response will be highly appreciated.

after we replied we get the following reply -

Thanks so much for your response, I feel comfortable to email you my order this way rather than to fill it on your site, so below are the item we are interested in: Kindly email me with each prices !!

Antique Floor Standing Corner Cupboard – Victorian Mahogany

Antique Regency Mahogany Chest of Drawers – Two over Three

Georgian Mahogany Whitehaven Floor Standing Corner Cupboard ca 1770

Concerning the shipment,the likes of UPS,FEDEX and POST OFFICE always don’t take care of the charges down here. Charges like handling, customs duties,tax etc. I have experienced such situation before and I don’t want to be the victims of such a thing again. I will be glad if you contact this freight forwarder GLobe Freight Logistics for shipping quote.

The shipping company will arrange the pick-up of my order from your store,so you don’t have any stress to face in shipping processing at all.  Here is their email address  (globefrieghtlogistics@post.com) Not that I can’t deal with the shipper directly, but they always prefer to deal with the store where they will be doing the pick up in other to reduce the customs duties and other charges.

They have a way of preparing their shipment documents whereby the custom duties payment on this goods will be reduced.  They will take care of everything including Handling, Customs duties,Tax, Insurance etc.Contact them to obtain a quote and get back to me in the format bellow:

COST OF THE ORDER

COST OF THE SHIPPING FROM Globe Freight

TOTAL COST (ORDER + SHIPPING)

Once I have these details from you, I will get back to you with our Credit Card, so you can charge and make the necessary shipping arrangements.

Regards,

Bruce M.

NOTE:The freight company will need these 5 information to get you a quote,so provide them with the details bellow:

1)My Customer’s ID # : AQ772930LOR

2)Delivery Full Address:

Honi Well Stores

4-2-6, Marunouchi,

Chiyoda-ku.

Tokyo 100-0005.

3)Pick Up Full Address : PROVIDE YOUR ADDRESS

4)Weight Of The Consignment : PROVIDE ORDER WEIGHT

5)Momentary Value Of The Consignment : PROVIDE ORDER TOTAL COST.

as you can see by the details above all is not quite right as once they pay via a stolen card the company will make up an excuse that they are in the area and need to collect quickly, so you release the goods and then the card has the funds refunded back so you are left out of pocket. keep an eye out for these dodgy emails.

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