brunicardi family crest: boston british antiques
old england antiques
Designers, welcome to the world of our fine Old England Antiques!

We have always loved to work with interior designers and decorators...

Our business was first established in 1979, in the Northern part of Tuscany, Italy, as Antichita' Brunicardi specializing in finely restored, English antique furniture. Since then, we have directly imported antiques from England, buying at antique auctions in London and more recently, outside the city, within the British countryside. For almost 30 years we have traditionally restored our pieces in our own workshops and sold them to the public successfully.



We have also worked alongside, and in close contact with, many interior designers that share our view of beautifully restored, authentically warm antiques, blended with more modern furniture, to achieve an ideal balance between style and functionality. We have now brought our business and experience to Greater Boston as Old England Antiques. We have always strived to offer the best of service, with the best of terms, working with such professionals, and giving them what they need, with finishes they desire. We now aim to establish many long term relationships in the Boston area, with experts in your field, whether buying directly from us, or simply assisting clients in their furniture shopping choices.



Many designers already know us, and appreciate our pieces, through their experience with us at antique shows and fairs which we have taken part in over the last few years. Others have already visited Old England Antiques during our unofficial opening in January 2008. We are now striving to inform the impressive community of designers and decorators in the Greater Boston area, of our opening business, before advertising to the general public.



To those interested, we will also organize events reserved only to professionals, with previews of our antique pieces, as containers arrive from Europe. We invite you to drop by our store on Boylston St. in the Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. We would like you to view the types of antiques we carry, our restoration process, and the way we work.



We are looking forward to meeting you!




Sincerely,

Old England Antiques.





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or call us: Tel. 617 999 0269 during business hours
617 894 0731 & 617 921 3443 anytime

Please note that we are open every weekday, but we would be delightedto set up appointments, almost anytime and anyday, as this gives us the opportunity to better serve the client, while we don't necessarily expect any commitment.
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
English Victorian chest of 5 drawers with wooden knobs. All antique locks in place and functional. Brass escutcheons. No woodworm and no rot. Hand polished with shellac. Note: restoring an antique with traditional techniques including polishing with shellac, is the only way to add value to an fine original English antique.