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How to buy vintage leather goods

Like fine wine, quality leather goods will only improve with age. Nothing can replicate real, distressed vintage leather, but special care must be taken when shopping for quality. Here, we examine what you should look out for when buying vintage leather goods. Read more...

From a selection on Hemswell Antiques Centre website

Posted: 10 February 2021

The appeal of vintage toy cars is as great as ever and passionate collectors will pay remarkable amounts for rare models. Anybody who has ever watched an episode of Flog It, Bargain Hunt or Antiques Road Trip will know that when collecting diecast miniature vintage toy cars, condition is key and having the original box is the icing on the cake. Unsurprisingly, good examples of these much loved (and therefore much played with) toys of the 1950s and 1960s can command good money. However, few will know that the die-casting process (pouring molten metal into a mould under pressure to create an object with precise surface detail and strength) did not come about until the end of the Great War. The first toymakers to use this process were the Dowst brothers with their Tootsietoys range in 1920s Chicago. Read more...

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Mid Century Toy London Bus

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Hemswell Antiques - from a selection on the website

Hemswell Antiques - from a selection on the website