Knowledge about what makes an ornate candelabra or decorative platter valuable can help you separate the good stuff from the giveaways. By Ginanne Brownell LONDON — When a great-uncle dies or an older ...

Chemical studies of old English coins are helping unravel a centuries-old mystery: What happened to all the silver that Spaniards dug out of the New World? Silver from Mexican mines started being ...

Appraisal: English Silver Loving Cup, ca. 1750, from Birmingham, Hour 2. Check out David Walker's appraisal of a 1750 English Silver Loving Cup, in Birmingham, Hour 2.

A silver groat from the hoard depicting Henry VI. "Coin hoards containing a mix of both English and Scottish coins are not unusual, but we do not see many hoards from this period in Scotland, so it's ...

I HAD gone to Cambridge for a holiday. I always do this when I get tired of Oxford, for to see a familiar form of life in an unfamiliar setting is, I suppose, the psychological background of ...