antiques/old furniture

anyone into old furniture or know where to look for information on it ?

nan has an old writing cabinet/display cabinet thing- quite hard to explain but i cant find anything like it when I do a search.
Its dark(ish) wood with claw and ball feet. The middle section is a pull out writing bureau with little crystal inkpots etc and on both sides are what i would describe as display cabinets. Thety are domed in shape and have glass doors. Not sure whether they were originally intended for displaying china or books? Originally belonged to my great grandmother- so wher do i start looking for info? Any ideas anyone?

Take a couple of pictures all sides and take the pics to a really good auction house Biddle and Webb in B'ham for instance.
They will give you a good honest evaulation usually free on certain days.

KAREN

u've probably already looked here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/antiques/

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