Schredds with a customer
The shop
Located in the heart of the Antiques Section of the Portobello Market, we have been here since the business was founded by my wife Bunty and me, in 1970. Our son Luke helps us when he can. He is most interested in the research side of our activities, particularly the provenance, the heraldry and attributions.
The stock
Our stock covers an ever-widening range of "inspired silver smalls" as one trade customer described them, with an emphasis on 'oddities', whether that be related to the function of the piece or its origin.
Most of them are pre-1870, British sterling (or Brittania) standard silver.
Our stock varies week by week and the objective of these pages is to allow our distant customers to see new stock soon after it comes in — without having to wait for their next visit to London. We have always put service high on our list of priorities and this whole site is an extension of that principle.
We have special collections of early spoons, vinaigrettes, caddy spoons, wine labels, snuff-boxes and serving pieces in many of the common English (and Irish and Scottish) patterns. As pieces sell, we keep these pages up-to-date so that they form a virtual catalogue of our stock.
Buying from us
How we ensure that the Customer gets exactly what he wants, safely and speedily, is shown on this special page.
Our Customers
After more than 30 years, our mailing-list of purchasers from all over the world — trade buyers and private individuals — now numbers more than 2000. We hope you will make a point of visiting us in the Portobello Road on any Saturday in the year (well, almost).
Fairs
Though the pieces and the prices are the same wherever you encounter them, if you can get to one of the Antiques Fairs at which we exhibit, you may find it more refined than our small shop in the Portobello Road! Because of space limitations, there is much that perforce remains hidden in our shop and is only on display at fairs — and on this site, of course!
Our next Fair is Antiques for Everyone in Birmingham 27th — 30th March: our Stand Number is S26.
Opening hours are:
Thursday, 27th March 11am — 7pm
Friday, 28th March 11am — 6pm
Saturday, 29th March 11am — 6pm
Sunday, 30th March 11am — 5pm.
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Telephone: (0)-208-348-3314 Fax (24 hours): (0)-208-341-5971 E-mail: silver@schredds.comSHOP: Saturdays only 6.30 a.m. — 2.30 p.m.
107, Portobello Road, London W11, England.
