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My All-Time Favorite Spanish Porcelain (and Other) Web LinksA Retired CollectionThis is the web site for Janet Hammer of A Retired Collection. Janet is the foremost broker of hard-to-find secondary market Lladró in the United States. If she doesn't have it, I don't know who does! She has a sterling reputation and is utterly ethical and trustworthy. I have purchased items from her and highly recommend her. Her site also includes an invaluable list of porcelain restoration artists. (Click on the "Site Map" link at the bottom of her home page, then click on "Restoration Artists." This extensive list includes web site links for restorationists who have them.) Porcelain Splendor Porcelain Splendor is a dealership in secondary market Lladró that has been in business for a lot of years. It has a well-constructed web site, easy to navigate - including both a picture catalog and a quick-load option that allows the reader to call up lists of available inventory without thumbnails. The inventory is not as extensive as Janet Hammer's, but it is still substantial and well worth a look. Porcelain Splendor is owned by a family that is originally from Spain and that happens to have the last name Nadal. Their business was originally known as "Nadal Porcelain," but that created some confusion with the Spain-based company of the same name (click on "Nadal" on the left border for information on the porcelain manufacturer), so this Lladró dealership has in recent years used the business name Porcelain Splendor in order to avoid any confusion. (Note the disclaimer at the bottom of Porcelain Splendor's web page explaining that it is not affiliated with Nadal Porcelain in Spain.) World Collector's Net Lladró Message Board World Collector's Net, which originates in the UK, sponsors a number of message Boards, including two for Lladró, one for Trading and one for Discussion. The link here will bring you to the Trading Board, from which you can click on a link to the Discussion Board. You can find invaluable information on both pages. This is a great deal of fun and an opportunity to interact with collectors of Lladró products from all around the world! Pop-up ads on the site can be extremely annoying, but this Board is worth the trouble. Official Lladró Web site This is the company web site for Lladró. Has lots of attractive bells and whistles, though it can be a bit difficult to navigate. Worth spending some time with to familiarize yourself with the locations on the site for various types of information, including a full online picture catalog of all known and catalogued Lladró core collection items. Official Nao by Lladró Web Site This is the Lladró company's web site for NAO porcelains. It only features items in the current retail catalog, and removes items from the online catalog as soon as they are retired, so, unfortunately, the site itself isn't much help to collectors looking for information about retired items. However, the staff that maintains the site is very helpful and is occasionally able to assist in identification of retired items. T K's Place This is the web site for Teresa K. Schmidt, a passionate collector of Lladró and NAO by Lladró. The site has some great pictures of her own collection. She was also an invaluable contributor of photographs of her own collection for the second edition of my book, Collecting Lladró (ordering options for which, by the way, are just to your left on this page!). Leak Enterprises (Fine Porcelain Restoration) Jody (Joanne) Leak is my all-time favorite restoration artist for Spanish and other fine porcelains. (She also restores pottery and other materials in objets d'art.) I have had her do invisible restorations on a couple of my rare or hard-to-find Lladró pieces. This type of restoration is expensive but absolutely seamless: it's invisible both to the naked eye and under blacklight. Nobody does it better than Jody! Even though I live in Vermont and she works in Florida, I still prefer her work. The Glass and Pottery Review The inaugural issue of this new expanded newsletter format publication features my article on Lladró. The Review is available, by issue or by subscription, in both hard copy and electronic formats. I'm placing a permanent link to this publication here because I'm pretty sure you'll find, as I have, that an interest in Lladró leads naturally to an interest in other pottery and porcelain. (So, for example, my future articles for the Review will feature German porcelain figurines, miniature pottery and porcelain figurines, etc.) This periodical is published by Old Line Publishing and has many famous writers in the collectibles field contributing work to it. Check it out! "Gotheborg.Com" (Antique Asian Porcelain Information) Once you start collecting one kind of porcelain, you'll probably discover you've an enhanced interest in all of it. That's certainly been true of me and my love affair with antique Asian porcelain, to which I was led indirectly through my interest in Spanish porcelain. This "Gotheborg.com" web site, developed and maintained by Jan-Erik Nilsson of Sweden, is not only, hands down, the best thing on the Web about Asian porcelains but also one of the best - if not the best! - collector information web sites ever. Nilsson's English is a bit rusty at times, but he surely gets his points across. His archives are huge, and I love to go there and just get lost. He's my inspiration: his marvelous information site is also free and adless! Highly recommended! All Write, Already (My Writing Business) I'm a writer by profession, and this is the site I've designed to promote my own writing business. The various writing samples on the site include a section on antiques and collectibles (to be periodically updated), including an article on "Buying Safe and Smart at Internet Auction" that some readers of "El Portal Porcelana" may also find interesting. |
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