We undertake confidential consultancy work for private and corporate clients, providing our opinion as to the age, date and comments on previous restorations of specific chimney-pieces. We also undertake insurance valuations, record images, and can advise on suitable period replacements for listed buildings.

In addition there has been a proliferation of modern copies of genuine originals, manufactured both within the EEC and the rest of the world, many of a very high quality, and these reproductions  continue to find their way into the antiques market. We have subsequently been involved with the identification of a considerable number of modern forgeries some of which  have been acquired for many thousands of pounds.