Arts and Crafts Antiques for Sale.
The arts and crafts designers rejected the banality and inferior quality of industrially produced decorative arts by promoting a return to a handcrafted medieval style of craftsmanship. 
Arts and Crafts encompasses works by artists such as William Morris, William de Morgan, Gustav Stickley, Charles Ashbee and Charles Voysey. Typical motifs come from traditional techniques with slat back chairs, leather upholstery, turned feet, rush seating, enamelling, thick ceramic glazes and hand hammered metalwork.
Watching the experts at antique roadshows, you probably wonder just how they get so much information about an antique simply by turning the item upside down.
The Victorian Design Registration Mark or Kite Mark was used between the years 1842 and 1883.