About Us

About Applecross Antiques

We don’t stock Retro, gimmicky on-trend items, reproductions or rubbish, but we DO offer Warranted Genuine Antiques and Vintage Collectables, together with an extensive archive of Art and Antiques Journals, Auction, Trade and Museum Catalogues and Reference Works.

Each item of our chosen stock, carefully curated, properly researched and honestly presented is fully guaranteed ~ Rarely the cheapest but ALWAYS up there with the BEST, we aim to ensure that long after you’ve forgotten the price, you’ll still be enjoying your purchase.

Collecting and Conservation

Here at Applecross we regard Collecting as a civilised and life enhancing activity, constantly advising Collectors to follow their instincts when making a purchase. Our advice is only ever to buy what you like, always to go for quality, and never to be influenced by the prospect of financial appreciation.

The Antiques Trade stands proudly in the vanguard of the conservation movement. In rescuing what otherwise might often be destroyed, in restoring damaged and neglected historical treasures, both major and minor, and in encouraging an appreciation of our cultural heritage, Conservation should be our constant watchword.

Our Applecross Guarantee and Warranty

Our Guarantee unconditionally guarantees that all stock offered by our online store is as represented, and all purchases are supplied by us in good faith, along with our detailed Online Receipt and Warranty.

Furthermore, for your peace of mind, our unique Applecross Warranty invites you to “Buy it, Enjoy it, and Take Good Care of it”, subject to which conditions, we undertake to accept back any item, other than books, catalogues and journals, purchased from us, and to credit the full original sale price against your next purchase should an item no longer be required.

Once your order has been placed with us, it will normally be packed and shipped within 24 business hours of fully cleared settlement. All orders, whether intended for delivery within the U.K. or overseas, are dispatched via Royal Mail Express, Tracked Services and are delivered free of charge within the U.K.

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To buy or not to buy antiques?

It has never been our policy to recommend that our clients should buy antiques for investment, despite the vogue for “alternative investments” promoted in some quarters during recent years.

The market for art and antiques is driven by many factors, not the least of which is fashion, the result being that, just as with stocks, rather like a game of “Snakes and Ladders”, the index of prices can slide down just as quickly as it can spring up.

With this in mind, we recommend that, when considering a purchase, you should ask yourself three simple questions. Do I like it? Do I want it? and of course, Can I afford it? If the answer to all three questions is Yes, then, go right ahead, buy the item and enjoy it.
That said, we would nonetheless emphasise that it remains our policy strongly to caution against buying antiques for investment with financial appreciation as your primary aim.

Should your purchase subsequently prove to have been a good investment, as indeed many collectors have found to be the case, then consider that good fortune as a bonus.

The underlying reason for this was succinctly, if waspishly summarised by the critic, the late A.A. Gill who wrote, “There is a reason that art dealers, auctioneers and curators don’t have the gravitas of consultant surgeons, professors of astrophysics or even botanists. It’s because the art world is built, not exactly on a con, but on confidence, a collective agreement that a thing is what it pretends to be, not just what it appears to be, and that it has a value unencumbered by any practical application.”

Sentiments with which we wholly concur.

Confident that you will not be disappointed, we invite you to try our 5* service and join our worldwide list of satisfied clients. Simply enjoy browsing a selection of the thousands of warranted antiques, vintage collectables, and art and antiques reference works that we currently have on offer in our online store, all of which may be ordered at the click of a button, and dispatched to your home or store within 24 business hours of fully cleared settlement.

Ethical Trading

Our stock is, for the most part, sourced at auction, and can thus be shown to have been acquired both legally and fairly within a properly regulated professional arena. Once purchased, all items are carefully researched prior to their being offered for sale. They are then honestly presented and listed in a spirit motivated by our desire to ensure that Applecross is run in a wholly ethical manner.

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