Georgiansilver, regarding your comment about the fall in the prices paid for pottery and porcelain I would have agreed without reservation until recently when I attended a local auction in Northumberland. There were two small Doulton pieces there of the kind that I particularly like and I thought that I would get them at a reasonable price. In the end they were bought by a dealer who seemed to think that what seemed like high prices to me we're a bargain. Maybe I am just out of touch - on the other hand the lower prices work in my favour generally because I buy to keep not to re-sell and hopefully this incident was an abberation.