How to Clean Antique Jewellery - a Guide
Unlike most modern jewellery, the majority of antique jewellery is not mass-produced. Each object has history; look hard enough and there’s a personal stor...
What's The Value Of Your Old Polaroid Camera?
Old Polaroid Camera related to old times, and despite nearly every person having a high-resolution camera at their fingertips thanks to the invention of th...
How Do You Clean A Camera Lens? - A Guide
A camera is a beautiful thing, a chance to capture a moment in time, to keep forever. At Vintage Cash Cow, we simply adore old cameras and often muse about...
How To Clean Brass - A Guide
Brass is a very popular metal, found in many British homes. It's used for a number of things including cookware, musical instruments, ornaments, and even j...
Types of military medals to sell - a guide
If you’ve decided to sell a military medal there are probably many questions which will crop up, especially if you don’t have any experience of selling med...
War medal values - a guide
You’ve decided to sell your medals and you want to know how much you’ll make. So, how much are military medals worth? The answer isn’t as straightforward a...
How to clean silver - a guide
Everybody loves silver, and there probably isn't a household in the country that doesn't contain some form of silver. Whether it’s sterling silver jeweller...
How to clean a fountain pen – A guide
If you use and collect vintage fountain pens, you’ve probably tried to clean one at some stage, or at least wondered how to do it. Cleaning old fountain pe...
Seven fountain pen mistakes to stop RIGHT NOW
It’ll come as no surprise that we’re big fans of fountain pens here at Vintage Cash Cow. Biros are great and all, but we really enjoy the increased feeling...
Camera lens fungus - A guide
If you use and collect vintage camera lenses, you’ve probably heard of and fear lens fungus. It’s a problem that affects old lenses fairly commonly, and it...
How do Vintage Cash Cow test gold?
His name is Charman, Antony Charman, and he’s here to test your metal… literally, Antony is an expert, he loves to talk about what he does, and he’s recent...
Antony spills the beans on his appraisal challenge
If you've only just joined us, you may have missed the one where one of our senior vintage experts Antony Charman went up against our metal testing gun. Co...