Cabinetmaker

Coldstream!

/ Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Coldstream, weather forecast? No!

Gordon Bennet? No not him either, maybe a relative though!

Robert Bennet was a Cabinet maker, Upholsterer and Undertaker in Coldstream.

I found the label underneath a Gypsy Table, and here it is.

With the change in temperature, and the direction of air, I thought the word Coldstream was appropriate!

Hopefully the weather will warm up a little for the first Bibury Antiques Fair on March 4th, and maybe you will have time to join us there?

Regards, Andy.

Robert Bennet Gypsy Table Label

Plain Sailing?

/ Bibury Antiques Fair & Andy Briggs trading as Echo Antiques / Leave a comment

Hello again!

Been a while since I bought this plane, and now that it’s all clean and sharpened, I had great pleasure using it yesterday.

So, if anyone has any old tools still in their sheds, or workshops which have been long abandoned, I may well be interested in looking at them to see if some can be brought back into use, after all, this one looks as though it could be easily around 150 years old, (most likely more!) and now will be in regular use.

Hope you like it!

Regards, Andy.

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