Chelsea fine jewellery expert Ian Towning is filming another contribution to Channel 4’s popular Posh Pawn. This popular television programme is now being filmed for the next series to be seen later in the year. As before when a really special high-end piece of jewellery is brought into one of Prestige Pawnbrokers shops in Hatton […]
Everyone is being urged to save for the future. With the UK stock market’s recent performance leaving the British benchmark FT100 index suffering its worst start to a new year since 2008, no wonder people are looking at alternative investments. Jewellery is very much a favourite safe haven at such times. Well respected Chelsea jeweller Ian Towning reports greater […]
The Hope House Children’s Hospices in the Welsh Borders are holding a “Value and View” fund raising event at Trevor Hall near Llangollen on Tuesday 2nd September 2014. Ian Towning, Chelsea jewellery and antiques expert on ITV’s popular show Dickinson’s Real Deal, will be conducting two valuation sessions at this Welsh stately home. This is a ticket-only occasion in aid […]
Following on from last year’s successful one-off Channel 4 documentary, Posh Pawn, a complete series about high-end pawnbroking comes back on our television screens for 2014. In the first episode at 8pm on Thursday 17 April asset experts including Chelsea antiques and fine art specialist Ian Towning go behind the scenes when two diamond necklaces are brought in to Surrey-based Prestige pawnbrokers. […]
Easter eggs are not all edible! There is a long tradition of giving eggs as presents at Easter made of precious metals. These novelty eggs have become extremely collectable . A good egg example is a 13cm tall silver mushroom with an Easter egg inside made by silversmith Christopher Nigel Lawrence, hall-marked London, 1981. At the time of writing this is […]
Posh Pawn, the entertaining prime-time Channel 4 television documentary, returns to our screens in May 2014.Filmed at Prestige Pawnbrokers, in Weybridge, Surrey, said to be the UK’s equivalent of Beverly Hills in Hollywood, up-market pawnbroker James Contantinou lends cash against everything from classic cars and helicopters to more down to earth quality jewellery and handbags. Ian Towning of Bourbon Hanby Arcade […]
The Decorium, Wood Green, north London is the venue for filming the first valuation day of the 2014 series of Dickinson’s Real Deal. Regular appraiser Ian Towning will be there from his emporium at Bourbon Hanby Arcade opposite Chelsea Old Town in King’s Road, to see what Londoners have brought along for valuation – and hopefully offering […]
