Richard W. Bell

Fine Quality Smalls For Discriminating Buyers - We Display For Sale At 18 Quality Shows Annually!
Exclusively on Ruby Lane. Member since June 2007 View Profile

See All Our Items In Person At: Overland Park (Kansas City) Oct 30-Nov 1 ~ San Mateo, Ca (San Francisco) Nov 6-8

Today's Featured Items

$3,950 USD
English Cameo Scent Bottle Circa 1900

$4,895 USD
Galle Cameo Glass Marguerites Vase - Circa 1900

$3,895 USD
Platinum & 2.7 Ct. Diamond Bow Necklace

$5,650 USD
Fabulous French Parcel Gilt/Silver Scent Bottle Circa ..

$245 USD
French Nude Enamel, Silver & Wheel Cut Glass Travel ..

$7,995 USD
Blackamoor Hard Stone, 18Kt & Precious Jeweled Pin

$495 USD
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" & "Miss Muffet" Sterling Baby Cup

$5,500 USD
Rare Pairpoint Puffy "Blue Pansy & Butterfly" Boudoir ..

$6,850 USD
Large Sterling Birk's Of Canada Footed Tea - Coffee ..

$1,895 USD
Hand Thrown Rookwood Pottery Floor Vase Dated 1917

$185 USD
French Silver, Enamel & Wheel Cut Travel Dresser Bottle

$1,495 USD
European Hand Carved Figural Ivory Page Turner/Cutter

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About Richard W. Bell

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We guarantee the authenticity of all our items! Please keep in mind if we are traveling to do an Antique Show we may not respond to an order or question for 48 hours. We do respond to all emails! If you do not receive an answer from us PLEASE click on "My Account" located between "Help" & "Shopping Bag" at the top of the page. Your ISP may have a high security setting for spam, not letting our email reach you. We understand from Live Help Customer Service that you can view your email answers from the dealers in this section.

About Us
OUR MERCHANDISE:
Besides a very large stock of Perfume & Scents we also carry Ladies Dresser Items, Photo Frames, Sterling Holloware & Special Serving Pieces, Miscellaneous Silver Objects, Match Safes, Napkin Rings, Tea Strainers, Vienna Bronzes, Porcelain, Art Glass, Antique Jewelry and quirky items that excite me.

Keep an eye on our Ruby Lane Store as we will be adding items weekly, when in town, from our show stock and new purchases!

ABOUT ME:
I have been an Antique Dealer since 1972. I started with California shows and branched out to shows across the USA as my interests grew. We do shows in Pasadena-CA, San Mateo-CA, Denver, Houston, Chicago Area, Kansas City, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Miami, Miami Beach & the IPBA Convention. My sister, Chris, joined the business in 1997 which helps enable me to go out more often and buy and buy and buy (it's a disease!). I only buy items I love and regretfully I am very eclectic.

Two of my personal passions are Enamel Items & Perfume/Scent Bottles. I am a member of the IPBA (International Perfume Bottle Assoc.). If you love perfumes/scents and haven't heard of the IPBA it's great! They issue 4 magazines per year and have an outstanding convention once a year. Email me and I will mail you a brochure to join.

OFFERS:
We will consider all reasonable offers, but discount could change terms of shipping.

CONDITIONS:
Our items are in good to excellent conditions. Our descriptions will give you any excessive wear, damage, manufacture flaws or restoration. Our descriptions can be of spots so minute you can not see them w/the naked eye. We believe in honest ethical disclosure!

Our Sterling is antique or collectable-not reproduction. It can have ANY or ALL of the normal flaws due to age/usage. Look at any of your antique silver and you can see what we are describing. IE: Pin point sized surface indentations; uneven surfaces; minuscule surface indentations about 1/32" big and deep; light surface scratching/swirling due to old style cleaners. Any damage (dents, deep scratches, holes, repairs, cracked seams) will be stated. We do not machine buff/polish. Buffing removes the patina (dark areas in pattern indentations) that adds to your antique silver's value. Patina also helps take better pictures of pattern.

PICTURES & MEASUREMENTS:
We DO NOT touch up our photos. Because we do not, sometimes you see the reflection of the camera or the color reflection of our clothes. We ONLY crop, change size for insertion into listing and sometimes lighten because of time of day photo taken or curves & angles causing shadows. Sometimes we over lighten/expose to show a specific area. When we say 1/10", 1/32" & 1/64" it has been measured. Chris appropriated her retired husband's machine shop ruler.

THANK YOU:
We hope you enjoy your new treasure from us and if you visit one of our shows please stop in and say Hello and look at all of our wonderful items.