Antiques website

[Segilla]

Can anybody please point me to a website where a question about an antique item (not about its value) will be seen by serious enthusiasts?

[jake-the-peg]

I think you'll have to be more specific.

Serious enthusiasts for Derby China for example will have different website to those interested in Georgian silver and will be unlikely to spend a lot of time on something relating to "antiques" in general.

What sort of item do you have in mind?

[Segilla]

No guarantee it's Derby china at all. I took it to the Royal Derby Musem and was told it was probably not by a traditional porcelain painter.

It's circular, oil on white vitroline glass about 11" diameter, a spray of pansies
Signed A W Gregson1896.
I'm an experienced family historian so had no difficulty assembling a set of documents and copies for an Albert Gregson, painter, Derby etc etc BUT unfortunately there is one flaw. His deatn occurred in 1895.
I can find no other candidate, but who is to say it's not by an American or whoever?
I can think of several fanciful reasons why a painter might misdate his work but what is needed are facts.