New Vendor, Specializing in Silver

We have a new vendor in who specializes in silver items. What caught my fancy was a tiny prayer book with silver covers. The front cover has embossed angels on it.






This dealer also has a model of The Beatles Yellow Submarine - no one can accuse us of not having variety!

Some Recent Items - Showing Our Wide Range of Stock

This selection of items that have come in this month show what a variety we have in the Emporium. There is an Anglo Indian console table, a WWII helmet, two silver plate and glass storage containers from Harrods (one is for string),  and finally a vibrant new picture by the artist Tim Brooks.






Do pop in and have a look sometime.

Coins and Militaria added to our range at The Emporium

Pylle Emporium and Gallery has a new dealer who specialises in coins and Military items. He has a good selection for sale and is intending to bring more in to The Emporium in the coming months if there is sufficient interest. 

Please phone or email us if you would like more information.

Coins

Militaria

Vintage Bakelite Telephones

We have just got in three more Bakelite telephones, a different model from the ones we have already. All our  phones have been converted to run on the current telephone network.

I keep seeing similar ones on the television, for example the more modern shape were in Endeavour on ITV, which is set in the 1960's.

Deed from the reign of George III

I like this item. It is the deed for a property in the next village, Evercreech, and is from the reign of George III.

Evercreech is quite a large village, with a lovely church, a Village Hall, a Junior School, a Co-Op, and a post office among other facilities. The previous owners acquired the deed when they bought the house, 1, High Street, Evercreech. Their solicitor gave them a big box full of documents relating to local properties. Apparently  by default they had all been filed with the documents for house number 1!


This document is actually an Indenture, so called because it was written in duplicate and the parts were separated by cutting an indented (as opposed to straight) line between them so that they can later be refitted to prove authenticity. It is handwritten in English on vellum and was ‘ made the Eleventh Day of December in the forty first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third’. It has the two wax seals and the revenue and tax stamp on it. The bottom of the document is a double layer tied up at the corners with tiny strips of vellum, very sweet.

The Emporium has recently acquired many interesting glass items to sell. This started off with a couple, who were downsizing, bringing in their collection of cut glass crystal decanters. This inspired me to collect our other decanters together for a photograph. The decanters range from an onion shaped etched glass decanter for £15 to a cut glass one with a silver collar by Garrad and Co for £195.

St Louis Glasses

Then Tony found a large number of Saint Louis crystal glasses, forty five altogether, ranging from champagne glasses down to liquor glasses. Saint Louis make wonderful glassware and is the oldest glass manufacturer in France, it is now owned by Hermes International.  The pattern is called STL16 and is very pretty.





A local lady brought in a collection of Swarovski crystal figurines. Those of you who collect these will already be familiar with the wonderful details in the design of the figurines. I think my favourite is the pair of Kingfishers.

Finally, a selection of blue glassware came in at the weekend. The dealer selling these is our friend with all the Chinese items, he must have extended his interests.

New Artist: Tim Brooks, Wood Sculptor

Tim Brooks an artist steadily growing in reputation displaying and selling work in galleries across the west country.  He specialises in creating beautiful works that stem from a deep reverence of the materials used. His primary medium is wood, and he effortlessly takes it in its natural form and transforms it in his own unique way. Tim lifts out both the innate beauty of the wood and what would otherwise be flaws, and creates unique and stunning works of art which, are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also functional additions to a home. See more of his work at: Tim Brooks Wood Turned Originals

Spalted Beech Goblet

" I have been a wood turner for over 20 years and it's my passion.  I have been working in mid- Devon and, more recently, Somerset.

Sometimes it's the wood that drives the design and sometimes the beauty I see within the wood.  For a piece to work just right, it has to inspire and nourish the artist first.  To feel that rush of anticipation of what is possible in the piece and then to see the beauty which lies beneath.

A log is just a piece of wood until it has been sculpted, designed and fashioned into an art form.  Then it becomes something else.  It's that something that makes us want to take it home.  Every time we look at it, it gives something back."

- Tim Brooks.

Jarrha vase with ebonised rim

Hawthorn vase with Jarrha base