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coming to our Oak Interior auction in early 2025 A fabulous and rare 17th Century model of The Church of The Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem. estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
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Welcome At this time of year is there anything worse than the dreaded round-robin Christmas card? All the information you really want to hear (...Maureen is back in rehab, Geoffrey has been asked to leave his pickleball class) is forgotten in favour of endless crowing about family achievements. And who do we have to thank for the pernicious tradition? Not the Americans (although they do love them) but the Victorians. On page 38, author Paul Frecker considers the phenomenon of cartes de visite, a small photograph mounted on card the size of a visiting card, the exchange of which became a sensation in the mid-19th century. Think Panini card, but with your fizzog on the front of it. Swapping them with friends and family became an obsession throughout society, from the lowliest worker to the monarch – Queen Victoria was a huge fan. It’s fascinating stuff. Of course, whether you prefer a round-robin card or low-effort text, Christmas means different things to different people. Top of the list for most Brits has to be festive telly. Even in these days of streaming, there are still the must-watches to digest the turkey to. And if you are of a certain age, you, like me, would no doubt have been one of the 28 million viewers (half the UK population at the time) who tuned in to watch The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1977. As a child you knew most of it was meant for grown-ups, but we still managed to laugh like drains when the day’s top newscasters cartwheeled to Th e r e is Nothing Like a Dame. So the news that the Eric Morecambe collection is coming to market is a red letter day. Among the treasures on sale is the baby grand piano on which he rehearsed the legendary André Previn sketch. Eric Knowles goes behind the scenes on page 29. Elswehere in the magazine, festive drinking also takes centre stage, with an article on Bellarmine jugs – beloved of the Tudor alehouse – along with porcelain punch bowls which were in fashion at the height of the drink’s popularity in the mid 1800s. And on page 66 our resident columnist Marc Allum remembers the Christmas dinners of his youth where, most unusually, his mother eschewed turkey in favour of pike and roast boar. Enjoy the issue and have a very happy Christmas and wonderful new year. Georgina Wroe, Editor PS If you are taking advantage of either the gift subscription, on page 21, or the book offers on page 36, please get your orders in as soon as possible as we cannot always guarantee delivery in time for Christmas. KEEP IN TOUCH Write to us at Antique Collecting, Riverside House, Dock Lane, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1PE, or email magazine@accartbooks.com. Visit the website at www.antique-collecting. co.uk and follow us on X and Instagram @AntiqueMag We love! this Santa outfit as worn by Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street which has an estimate of $4,000-$6,000 at Julien’s Auction’s sale orn Kris Miracle as an 000 at sale 14. on December 12-14. ONLY £38 for 10 issues SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO ANTIQUE COLLECTING Call 01394 389969 or email charlotte.kettell@accartbooks.com FIRST WORD IN THIS ISSUE CATHERINE SOUTHON delves into the history of a very special presentation plate by Omar Ramsden, page 11 NICOLETTE TOMKINSON considers the soaring market for 20th-century ski posters, page 26 KEVIN FINCH reveals everything a collector needs to know about Picasso prints, page 30 PAUL FRECKER delves into the fascinating 19th-century phenomenon of ‘cartomania’, page 38 THE TEAM Editor: Georgina Wroe, georgina. wroe@accartbooks.com Online Editor: Richard Ginger, richard.ginger@accartbooks.com Design: Philp Design, philpdesign.co.uk Advertising and subscriptions: Charlotte Kettell 01394 389969, charlotte.kettell @accartbooks.com ANTIQUE COLLECTING 3

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Welcome

At this time of year is there anything worse than the dreaded round-robin Christmas card? All the information you really want to hear (...Maureen is back in rehab, Geoffrey has been asked to leave his pickleball class) is forgotten in favour of endless crowing about family achievements. And who do we have to thank for the pernicious tradition? Not the Americans (although they do love them) but the Victorians.

On page 38, author Paul Frecker considers the phenomenon of cartes de visite, a small photograph mounted on card the size of a visiting card, the exchange of which became a sensation in the mid-19th century. Think Panini card, but with your fizzog on the front of it. Swapping them with friends and family became an obsession throughout society, from the lowliest worker to the monarch – Queen Victoria was a huge fan. It’s fascinating stuff.

Of course, whether you prefer a round-robin card or low-effort text, Christmas means different things to different people. Top of the list for most Brits has to be festive telly. Even in these days of streaming, there are still the must-watches to digest the turkey to.

And if you are of a certain age, you, like me, would no doubt have been one of the 28 million viewers (half the UK population at the time) who tuned in to watch The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1977. As a child you knew most of it was meant for grown-ups, but we still managed to laugh like drains when the day’s top newscasters cartwheeled to Th e r e is Nothing Like a Dame. So the news that the Eric Morecambe collection is coming to market is a red letter day. Among the treasures on sale is the baby grand piano on which he rehearsed the legendary André Previn sketch. Eric Knowles goes behind the scenes on page 29.

Elswehere in the magazine, festive drinking also takes centre stage, with an article on Bellarmine jugs – beloved of the Tudor alehouse – along with porcelain punch bowls which were in fashion at the height of the drink’s popularity in the mid 1800s. And on page 66 our resident columnist Marc Allum remembers the Christmas dinners of his youth where, most unusually, his mother eschewed turkey in favour of pike and roast boar. Enjoy the issue and have a very happy Christmas and wonderful new year.

Georgina Wroe, Editor

PS If you are taking advantage of either the gift subscription, on page 21, or the book offers on page 36, please get your orders in as soon as possible as we cannot always guarantee delivery in time for Christmas.

KEEP IN TOUCH Write to us at Antique Collecting, Riverside House, Dock Lane, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1PE, or email magazine@accartbooks.com. Visit the website at www.antique-collecting. co.uk and follow us on X and Instagram @AntiqueMag

We love!

this Santa outfit as worn by Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street which has an estimate of $4,000-$6,000 at

Julien’s Auction’s sale orn Kris Miracle as an 000 at sale 14.

on December 12-14.

ONLY £38 for 10 issues

SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO ANTIQUE COLLECTING Call 01394 389969 or email charlotte.kettell@accartbooks.com

FIRST WORD

IN THIS ISSUE

CATHERINE SOUTHON delves into the history of a very special presentation plate by Omar Ramsden, page 11

NICOLETTE TOMKINSON

considers the soaring market for 20th-century ski posters, page 26

KEVIN FINCH reveals everything a collector needs to know about Picasso prints, page 30

PAUL FRECKER delves into the fascinating 19th-century phenomenon of

‘cartomania’, page 38

THE TEAM Editor: Georgina Wroe, georgina.

wroe@accartbooks.com Online Editor: Richard Ginger, richard.ginger@accartbooks.com

Design: Philp Design,

philpdesign.co.uk Advertising and subscriptions:

Charlotte Kettell 01394 389969, charlotte.kettell

@accartbooks.com

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