| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| When: | On Thursdays 2 pm 3rd Thursday |
| Venue: | Homes of group members |
The group meet in members’ homes and view videos together relating to antiques, as well as share our interest in various antique pieces.
We also arrange visits to local Antiques Fairs & Auctions.
The choice of visits is decided at the group meetings where we also bring our antiques related to the topic of the month.
These meetings start at 2:00 pm and last usually until 4 pm.
A typical example of the type of artefact we are studying in our meetings.
Please find more details about our monthly meetings and trips from the posts linked below.
If you are interested in joining us, click on the name link above to send an email.
See below for our latest reports from John...
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Antiques - Coins & Medals
Six members of the group met on Thursday 8 January to discover more about ‘Coins & Medals’. They firstly looked in depth at the discovery of the famous ‘Fishpool Hoard’ in Ravenshead. On 22 March 1966, the Fishpool Hoard of 1,237 15th century gold coins, four rings and four other pieces of jewellery, and two…
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Antiques - Pottery from Poland & Germany
After last month’s talk about the local and short lived late 18th century production of Pinxton Porcelain, this month our Antiques Group members turn their attention further afield to Poland and Germany to learn about pottery products from those two countries. Firstly, there’s the Polish Bolesławiec pottery, known for its durable, hand-stamped stoneware, secondly the…
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Antiques - Pinxton Porcelain
On Thursday 18th September the group met to learn about the short-lived Pinxton Porcelain and the two key characters who briefly came together to form and run it. With two keen Pinxton collectors present, Gill Knight and Mark Wilson, we were also able to see and handle fine examples of the bone china that the…
Navigate forwards and backwards below for earlier reports...