STILL adding new items from our English buying trip!!!

Time Was Antiques is adding wonderful English antiques and collectibles that make the perfect gifts for friends and loved ones. We always carry small silver items like knife rests, sugar tongs, watch fobs and spoon sets and specialize in exquisite items for the tea table like Shelley China including chintz patterns. We always have more than 150 items of Shelley China in stock for collectors old and new. We always have lots of English royal family commemoratives, especially Princess Diana and Prince Charles.

Time Was Antiques always has wonderful collectible teacups and saucers, teapots, pie birds, plates, Dunoon mugs, staffordshire bone china floral paperweights or posies; We also have a wonderful selection of antique and vintage jewelry. We always have over 200 cups and saucers from every period and style to add a bit of joy to your tea time.

Enjoy browsing through our categories and savor the wonderful items from England and elsewhere we have found on our annual English month long buying trips! Sign up for our monthly newsletter for facts, stories, merchandise focuses and a tea recipe.

Elegant and servicable items, butter pats or butter chips were individual glass, pottery or porcelain receptacles for butter at the dinner table. Today they are used for sauces, tea bag holders or for sushi!