There are quite a number of antique stores in London! We went to a few this trip. There’s also of course Portobello road
The Furniture Cave
I love antiques because they are one of a kind and they are surely made of good quality materials and something that is not being made anymore today or if ever it is, it will be ten times the price or more 🙂
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The Silver Vault which focuses on sterling silver items. They are real vaults in the basement of a building. In the olden times they were used to store their valuables and were owned privately by families. They are now converted to stores selling antique sterling silver items. There are around 30 vaults in the basement of the building
This photo shows the main door leading to the vaults. No photos allowed so I took this shot before entering. Suharto thinks my Lola named Silver Vault after this though Silver Vault in Rustan’s is mainly jewellery 🙂 But who knows? 🙂
Wow!!! It looks so abundant down here!! And they are not cheap! 🙂
A sterling silver chess set in one of the vaults! With 18 karat gold on sterling silver, marble board and with sapphire, rubies and diamonds on the clothes of the king and queen. You need more than two people to carry this. It’s from the year 1900 and with price tag of 275,000 sterling pounds!
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Another antique place though around 30 minutes from city centre but they have three floors of warehouse space of antique furniture
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