LabRat, try these people:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/antiquesuk/ This is the Brit "Antiques Roadshow". You don't have to be willing to sell to get them to appraise. And they have tons of experts. You also can e-mail them your photos and don't have to show up in person with the stuff in hand.
We love the British version of AR because your stuff is so much older
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Artemis
-- going back to try her hand at "Britspeak"
P.S. I killed them on the game, thanks to you all here. Until I got to "Toss". Which I found out is a "Bung" which I'm not even sure what that is in American. Hee hee - they had "jumper". Boy that was easy.
