Our antiques expert Allan Blackburn looks at an item that is practical and valuable... Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website ...

This week a regular customer to the antiques centre came in asking me to value a beautiful writing box that had once been his father's. It is worth a mention as it is very unusual. Portable boxes for ...

A suzuribako is a box for holding writing instruments. Such boxes were also used as room ornaments and made as exquisite craftworks for this purpose. This piece from the early seventeenth century ...