brunicardi family crest: boston british antiques
old england antiques
Please Contact Us

Please use the following information to get in touch with us

Telephone:
  617-999-0269 during working hours

  617-921-3443 Denise USA

  617-894-0731 Marco USA

  +44 798-197-5501 United Kingdom

  +39 338-939-9342 Italy

Address:
  1015 Boylston St, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts
  (Mon-Wed 10-6/Thu 9-8/Fri-Sat 9-5/Sun closed)

Skype:
  oldenglandantiques
  (chat by appointment or by chance)

Our parent antiques business in Italy is:
  Antichita' Brunicardi
  via Sauro 58
  54036
  Marina di Carrara (MS)
  Tuscany, Italy
  Tel: +39 0585 632743
  Email:

Our inventory of authentic English antiques

  • chests of drawers
  • dining tables
  • chairs
  • stools
  • bookcases
  • bureaux or bureaus
  • cakestands
  • wall mirrors
  • plantstands
  • hallstands
  • mirrors
  • sets of chairs
  • settees
  • occasional tables
  • piano stools
  • corner cupboards
  • sideboards
  • chiffoniers
  • sidecabinets
  • writing tables
  • wall mirrors
  • hat and coat stands
  • stickstands
  • display cabinets
  • washstands
  • china display cabinets
  • tea trolleys
  • nests of tables
  • nesting tables
  • camp beds
  • worktables
  • workboxes
  • chests
  • center tables
  • bureau bookcases
  • music cabinets
  • suite
  • card table
  • centre tables
  • bedside cabinets
  • gateleg tables
  • coffee tables
  • bedside cupboards
  • sideboards
  • bedstands
  • bed tables
  • shelves
  • dressers
  • dressing chests
  • bedside tables
  • end tables
  • dressing tables
  • torcheres
  • lampstands
  • dressing stools
  • consol tables
  • lampstands
  • library steps
  • metamorphic chairs
  • wall cabinets
  • beds
  • consolle tables
  • filing cabinets
  • office furniture
  • consolle
Historical periods of our antique furniture:
  • victorian, our favourite, functionality, elegance, great materials
  • edwardian, very elegant, often georgian inspired
  • art deco, transitional antiques, not modern, not antique, but stylish and popular
  • late victorian, great variety of styles
  • georgian, antique, elegant, rare
  • arts & crafts, great materials, simple, stylish
  • art nouveau, beautiful and romantic
  • 1900s, last period for quality handmade furniture, last antiques

Typical woods of our antique pieces:
  • mahogany
  • beech
  • oak
  • walnut
  • rosewood
  • satinwood
Finishing methods used for restoration:
  • shellac, hand polished (hardest, but best option to add value to the piece)
  • wax, polished (easier than shellac, but time consuming and not appropriate for English antiques)
  • shellac on wax (easier than just plain shellac, more appropriate than just wax, but not the greatest value)
  • wax on shellac (easy, therefore cheap, reduces value of the piece)
  • satinated shellac (easier than polished, easy to repolish appropriately, good temp solution, doesn't reduce potential value)
  • satinated wax (easy even with no experience, but subtracts value even if product for antiques)
  • NO synthetic materials (they seriously affect the value of antiques and are costly and messy to remove)
  • NO oils (almost irreversible when absorbed, therefore damaging almost all antiques of any wood)
Please note that the historically correct finish for English antiques dating from the 1700s is French polish with shellac only, rubbed in and on the wood exclusively by hand, no wax, no oils.
These would be detrimental to the aesthetics and real value of the piece. However, we can restore and refinish any piece to suit the taste and requirements of our clients, because in the end, what counts is customer satisfaction.
We will provide all the advice that we believe is useful, and we will make available all our knowledge, based on decades of experience and studies.


Origin, where we directly select and acquire our antiques:
  • England
  • Scotland
  • Wales
Where the restoration process occurs:
  • Tuscany, Italy
Destination, where we proudly present our refinished antiques:
  • Boston, MA, USA
  • ...and next NH, USA
Some pieces from Northern Europe too show some British influence.