The Rokh Sindbad the Sailor (we always spelt it Sinbad, but never mind) was obviously very enterprising. Needing to escape from somewhere...

No, I'm not talking about the Norwich City football team. I'm told that Dutch refugees brought canaries with them in the 16th century...

I've said before that I love it when customers send me pix of their prints in situ. This is a first, however. Carol bought some Punch...

It's not every day that you see a boy riding a pigeon. This is what Victorian children had as a present in the 1870s in a book called...

"I'm here to forget a girl in tartan slacks and a duffel coat." I'm always interested in why people buy certain prints. For instance,...

I photographed these quickly a while ago for a customer to my stall at the Treacle Market, who collects watch memorabilia. They went the...

My shop in Hickling, Norfolk I'm just working on some nice bird pictures by Roland Green and I noticed that he lived in Hickling,...

This is me in the 1980s selling prints at Worstead Festival.

Now, I'd heard of Billy Bunter (of course), but I didn't know about Posher T Posh. Of course, I'm a gel and gels don't read boy's papers...

Some lovely pix from one of my customers showing how effective a wall of prints can be (not all from me, I must add!). The insects are...

A 19th century hand-coloured copper engraving v a 1930s Punch cartoon. Which is more your style? (Something for everyone here)

I'm not very knowledgeable about birds, but I like the name of this one. According to Wikipedia it's a small brown bird (could have...

The first escalator was installed in a London underground station in 1911

I wonder who the 82 famous actresses were who used Pond's Cream. The illustration is by Joseph Greenup (1891-1946), an RA artist. Nothing...

"What do you think of my picture - an ultra-modern street scene?" "I think it old-fashioned - I see a flat to let!" Illustrated by Graham...

I often ask my customers to send me a pic of what they've bought, so I can see it when it's framed up. This one looks lovely on the wall,...

Half price sale at my stall in the Buttermarket at the Treacle Market, Macclesfield, this Sunday, 28 January. Over 100 prints with either...

Just sold this hand-coloured aquatint of Lady Jane Grey and it's going to the US. I shall give my customer some info from the Court...

This is not very cheery, I know, but I have a few illustrations by Honor C Appleton of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and I'm finding...

I rather wish I hadn’t given a shout-out to Wilko when demonstrating how a print looks in a frame, as I now have loads of items to...