Category Archives: antique
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20 January 2023
Omnia Vanitas…
LASSCO has acquired a framed set of late Victorian and Edwardian caricature portraits from the original Vanity Fair, 1868-1914, depicting a range of figures from the world of art, politics, industry and law. The original Vanity Fair was a weekly society magazine first issued by Thomas Gibson Bowles in 1868. It aimed to capture and...
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28 July 2015
Jewellery – War In Pieces
LASSCO has managed to save from the scrap-yard furnace a dazzling trove of brass medals, buttons, badges, diverse militaria and heraldic emblems of all kinds, which we have hand-crafted into a striking range of jewellery and accessories. Originally modelled in London and Birmingham by J.R. Gaunt & Son, “metalworkers to the King, established 200...
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13 December 2014
A selection of gift ideas from LASSCO Brunswick House
LASSCO Brunswick House is replete with fantastic Christmas gifts for under £300 at the moment. Ideas for mother include two French ceramic cocks and for father, why not a pair of old pewter jugs?