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Latest antique email scams to watch out for
A number of antique dealers have reported to us some suspicious buying activity by fatiamohammed.trading@gmail.com from Dubai. The company is Aabar Global Ali Zahrat and Trading Company LLC. And ABDUL MUSTAPHA TRADING L.L.C Abdulmustapha76@yahoo.com. from United Arab Emirate
We recommend you simply delete emails as these are scams, being [...]

We have had this message sent to us from Lapada and are displaying it on our antiques blog to see if anyone can help -
LAPADA Director John Dixon of Georgian Antiques asks for your help. 
The following snuff mull was stolen from a  private club in Canada a few years ago. John has been asked [...]

A LAPADA member has very sadly  had a valuable painting stolen in transit from Scotland to London and so I am showing all my readers a photo and description of the antique. asked The antique painting is by  Stanislas Lepine,  Le Pont d’Lena, oil on canvas, 16 x 27.5 inches. If you are offered this [...]

Watch your pennies as they might be worth more than you think!
When you think of a one penny or a one cent you usually think there is not a great deal you can buy with this anymore but recently a one cent American copper coin from 1793 has sold for a $1.38 million at a [...]

Thieves target Mouseman Furniture
A large amount of burglaries between October and December have seen pieces of antique furniture by Robert Thompson also known as mouseman furniture, stolen from rural churches in Yorkshire.
Police have asked for antique dealers to contact them if they are offered any of the stolen items of mouseman furniture so please [...]

Christmas Opening Times 2011
We will be closed from Friday 23rd December and will re open on Wednesday 4th January but we will be available via email at info@driscollsantiques.co.uk during this time.
We may be able to open via appointment during this time so if you would like to email your telephone number, day and [...]

The £12 million garden antique statue
A four and a half foot marble antique statue in the depiction of Leda and the Swan had been in a family of the for more than 200 years and at one stage was used as a garden ornament. They had no idea of its value but when an antiquities [...]

Latest email scam aimed at antiques dealers
Here are several emails sent to ourselves and also over 100 antique dealers, so please be aware, these are scam emails.
Email sent from: micheal.lawrence69@yahoo.com Good day i like to know if your item is still available for sale Regards Reply
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Only limited space available on our last delivery run!
As Christmas draws closer our delivery runs start to fill up quite fast and we now only have one delivery run available before Christmas. The last delivery run will be on weekend 17th / 18th December and we are already starting to get fully booked. If you [...]

Antique Asian vases still a huge success
With the rise of the Asian markets the price of many oriental antiques have been increasing in value fast we have covered a few stories of Chinese vases making incredible money in sales recently and we have just seen a story of the latest success.
In a recent antiques [...]