I offer a Valuations and Sale Service in specialist categories here at Desirable Designs UK.
The items that I can value and potentially sell for you include: Art Deco; Art Nouveau; Arts and Crafts Movement; 20th Century Design – including good quality furniture, lighting, ceramics, glass, sculpture, silver objects and Art. Fine Jewellery and Designer Vintage Jewellery; Designer Fashion and Handbags, Handbag charms, Belts. I studied Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s Institute in London, have run a high street gallery for 17 years and am now based in a 3000 sq.ft. Showroom and Warehouse near Edenbridge, Kent and Lingfield, Surrey.
Here’s how:
1. Email your photographs to: chrissie@desirabledesigns.co.uk Please show the whole object from several angles; the base; the interior; any signatures or maker’s marks; any damage. Include all of the details you can about the piece including where you obtained it from – Provenance will help us to identify a mystery piece, to place a suggested value on it and to assist you with selling it.
2. FREE APPRAISAL: My initial appraisal of your item or items is FREE OF CHARGE. This usually involves searching specialist databases, auction results and any retail prices we can find.
3. SPECIAL PIECES: Where your piece warrants further research, we make a charge of £45 per hour (including VAT) for an agreed number of hours.
4. COMMISSION on SALE: If you would like the personalised service of identifying the best ways to sell your pieces, we discuss a reasonably priced Commission on the Final Sale and the process of sending your piece to auction or of our listing it on portals, or offering it direct to clients. As an expert in 19th and 20th Century design, I have bought and sold thousands of pieces and have run The Design Gallery with my husband, John Masters for 24 years. I am widely connected with auction house specialists, the market values and collectors February 2025: I have valued a collection of 350 pieces of antique silver and gold tableware, vinaigrettes, snuff boxes, vestas, desk accessories and objects of virtue for a loyal client and am now are arranging a sale of the entire collection.
March 2025
Please email me for further information or call me on 01959 561234 Mondays to Saturdays 10am-5pm: chrissie@desirabledesigns.co.u
